Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selma Lawyer W. McLean Pitts, attorney for Sheriff Clark, demanded that the court cite Martin Luther King for contempt. The judge leveled a cold eye at Attorney Pitts, explained with asperity that contempt is a matter for the court to decide...
Questioning Negro witnesses, Pitts was aggressive to the point that N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Jack Greenberg, representing King, jumped to his feet to object to Pitts's "insulting manner." Judge Johnson sustained Greenberg. "Everybody in this court, regardless of who he or she is, will be treated with common courtesy," said...
...expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
...decision incensed Chicago cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
...Sixth Amendment's guarantee that every criminal defendant shall "have the assistance of counsel for his defense." In 1963, the Supreme Court extended that right to all defendants in all state criminal trials (Gideon v. Wainwrighf). In 1964, the Court ruled that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer as soon as the police start grilling him in the station house (Escobedo v. Illinois). Lower courts are now catching on fast. Items...