Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge involving a homosexual act, but, Fortas said, Jenkins was so distraught that he couldn't give him a clear story. "1 could not get an answer," said Fortas. "But I was desperately concerned for this man's wife and six children." Fortas and Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford went to the Washington Star, asked the editors to withhold publication of the story "to at least give us time to find out." The editors agreed, and Fortas said last week, "I shall always honor those men." As for his role in temporarily suppressing the news, Fortas said...
...convene courts-martial, appoint court members and review court verdicts. The record showed that all too many commanders had been using military courts as personal disciplinary weapons, ignoring even such bedrock rights as the presumption of innocence until guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt. As one ex-Navy lawyer recalls: "The general attitude seemed to be that a man was going before a court-martial to receive a sentence rather than a trial...
...SPECIAL COURTS-MARTIAL nearly always deal with enlisted men, have a president (senior officer present), a trial counsel (prosecutor) and defense counsel. Neither counsel need be a lawyer, but if the former is, the latter must be. Maximum penalties upon conviction: six months' confinement at hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge, which is theoretically less serious than a dishonorable discharge...
Wheelis said that a bill giving residents a larger measure of con- trol in any urban renewal project affecting their homes will be introduced in the legislature Tuesday morning. Immediately afterward, the lawyer for the North Harvard residents, William Homans, Jr. will go to court to obtain a restraining order halting the evictions while the bill is being considered
...charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles S. Murphy, 55, former Under Secretary of Agriculture, who stepped up to the CAB chairmanship last April after 28 years' experience in Government jobs-and no experience to speak of in airline affairs...