Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They may ask you to surrender leaflets. Refuse absolutely and tell them your lawyer will sue for theft and assault if they take them. You're right, so don't compromise...
...make an educated guess that the judge will dismiss those cases which do not involve the sale of obscenity to minors," Avatar's lawyer, Harvey A. Silverglate said yesterday after a brief session in Middlesex Superior Court. Throughout the ten-day trial, the judge has expressed primary concern with the circumstances surrounding sales to minors and testimonies about the effect of obscenity on minors...
When he arrived back in Canada, Trudeau drifted from job to job, editing a political science magazine, teaching constitutional law at the University of Montreal and acting as a labor lawyer. Then, three years ago, he entered politics and won a parliamentary seat from an English-speaking constituency in Montreal. "After 15 years in the role of critic," he explained, "I think it's time to go out and try to do the job myself...
...extraordinary one. On trial was a young Filipino mother, Antonia Thomas, accused of murdering her six-day-old infant by feeding it some caustic substance from a baby bottle. She had already been found guilty in the killing once, but a mistrial had been declared. Between the trials, Defense Lawyer Dudley Gray had read in TIME (Dec. 29) about Thomas Kidwell, an accused wife killer who was shown to a jury on video tape; under a so-called truth drug, he had relived the apparent fact that his wife had shot him first. As a result, the charge against...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...