Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared the verdict void and ordered the five retried. With a new, and presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over the "unfairness and injustice of this retrial'' and decided that "I must...
Shifting with the Wind. Canadians know Diefenbaker as a skilled politician, a superb speechmaker and campaigner. Preaching that one-party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
Indicating some Kennedy complicity, Justin Feldman, a lawyer who scheduled Kennedy's campaign, was a frequent visitor to the Capitol building, though he has never in the past had any connection with the legislature. Perhaps most telling of all was the role attributed to Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law and campaign manager. According to Newsweek, Smith made the vital calls that held the coalition together...
June,*the Supreme Court sharply extended the right to counsel by ruling that it begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. Suspects are now entitled to the physical presence of a lawyer as soon as "the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory-when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession." And predictably, state courts have already found themselves grappling with Escobedo's scope and retroactivity. Items: > In Providence, Escobedo has just reached down as far as traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose...
...agreement with the U.S. Justice Dept. and that federal attorneys hope to begin a re-registration process in Holly Springs that will make it easier for Negroes to get the vote. But Clayton refused to discuss the nature of the agreement, stating, "I'd have to refer to my lawyer. I don't know enough about law today...