Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a murder conviction and ordered a new trial because a man had not been allowed to see his family before confessing to the police. Richard Taylor, 25, had no lawyer when police questioned him in the fatal shooting of a Harlem bill collector. Taylor said that police also denied his request to see his relatives. Found guilty and sentenced to life, Taylor appealed. Even if a suspect does not "rationalize his reasons for asking for his family," ruled the court, "we must assume that he makes such request to obtain...
...apparently never heard of the old legal maxim that "the man who defends himself has a fool for a client." "Your Honor, I don't feel that this man, in eight or ten minutes, can defend me," Maidonado protested, after a court had assigned a Legal Aid Society lawyer to handle his latest trial for burglary. "I want to act as my own attorney." The judge refused the request. Maldonado wound up in Sing Sing prison. But U.S District Judge Charles H. Tenney granted Maldonado a conditional writ of habeas corpus on the ground that "one of the most...
This shorthand road to success has brought handsome Margery Hurst the rewards she feels she so richly deserves. She lives with her lawyer-manufacturer husband and two teen-age daughters in a 22-room country home in Surrey, has a Mayfair flat, a Bentley, a swimming pool, a butler and a lady's maid. But her proudest possession remains the Brook Street Bureau. "I have built up this business on my own," she says. "Absolutely on my own. It is a one-woman show...
Whipped in the Field. When the Civil War broke out, Ben Butler was New England's most famous criminal lawyer, a raspy-voiced Democrat who had long crusaded for shorter working hours and the secret ballot. Lincoln needed all the Democratic trimmings he could get in the war, and since Butler was incidentally a brigadier of the state militia, Lincoln dispatched him to Maryland, which was threatening to secede. Butler seized Annapolis and then, in a lightning move by night, occupied mutinous Baltimore...
...Democrat to radical Republican, was elected to Congress. In eleven years in the House, he espoused woman suffrage, currency reform and the eight-hour day. He stood firmly opposed to what he called "Miss Nancyism"-in this case a sympathetic approach to Reconstruction of the South. With his sharp lawyer's mind, he was a natural choice for prosecutor when the Congress tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Caustic and too clever by half in many people's opinion, Butler attacked Johnson as if he were a horse thief. The impeachment move failed by one vote...