Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest star is Theodore Bikel. Lawyer O'Brien investigates the death of a Seventh Avenue dress manufacturer...
...bills and Smith in charge of organization, the Rhodesian Front sprouted like mealies on the veld at Gatooma. All the rightist fringe groups, including the Dominion Party of Contractor William John Harper (now Internal Affairs Minister), got into the act, as did such present powers as South Africa-born Lawyer Desmond Lardner-Burke
Harvesting Hostility. It is particularly ironic, say the authors, that Ruby's first lawyer, Tom Howard of Dallas, mapped the one strategy that District Attorney Henry M. Wade feared most: the plausible defense that Ruby shot Lee Oswald while "under the influence of a sudden passion arising from an adequate cause." Howard wanted the jury to view Ruby's crime as murder without malice, which in Texas carries a maximum sentence of five years...
...Ruby's case was taken over by San Francisco's Melvin Belli, a lawyer avid to make history, who demanded total acquittal on grounds of insanity. Like some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...
What's Right? Los Angeles Lawyer Herman F. Selvin, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, argued in the affirmative. "The right to acquire a home historically has been considered as basic to life as the right to acquire food," declared Selvin. Nonetheless, he said, California has erected "a shield for racial discrimination" by denying court relief for Negroes when they seek to buy a house in a generally white neighborhood...