Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such questions used to be a staple of law-school graduation oratory. And as such, they were all too often brushed aside. But U.S. lawyers can no longer ignore them, for the constitutional right to counsel is no longer limited to accused Americans who have the necessary cash. In its great decision of 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright, a no-fee triumph by Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, the Supreme Court ordered all state courts to provide lawyers for indigent defendants in all felony cases-and Gideon may apply to misdemeanor cases as well. As the court simultane ously expands constitutional rights...
...highest federal court thus far to expand last June's now famous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois. In that case the Supreme Court reversed Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder conviction because he had confessed after the police refused to let him see his lawyer, who was waiting at the station house. Rather vaguely, the court held that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect...
...Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The decision is apparently retroactive: convicted prisoners may now appeal on the ground that their rights were denied even though they confessed voluntarily. The court left police only one loophole: the suspect may "intelligently waive" his rights. Does this mean that he needs a lawyer to tell him what he is waiving? And if grilling now requires the physical presence of a lawyer, will he not obviously advise his client to remain silent? Possible result: no more valid confessions...
...Elected to a one-year term as moderator Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 46. The fifth layman in recent years to serve in the largely ceremonial office of chief spokesman for the United Presbyterians, Thompson endorsed the confession as "a precise statement of what we believe that deals with present-day concerns...
Clumeck, Simon's itinerant board sitter and a funnel for the thousands of scouts and tipsters who now besiege Simon; Brokers Felix Juda of Sutro and Gustave Levy of Manhattan's Goldman Sachs & Co.; Graham Sterling, a Los Angeles lawyer and an expert on the intricacies of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Hunt President Carl Kalbfleisch and Executive Vice President Harold M. Williams, who help Simon plan overall strategy...