Word: lawyers
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Jail house Lawyer. Ray said that he was firing Foreman - to which the attorney retorted that his connection with the case had ended the moment that Ray was sentenced. Ray also indicated his intent to alter his plea to not guilty, even though conviction by a jury for murder in the first degree could land him on Nashville's Death...
...original plea of guilty means that his sole recourse to obtain a new trial is through a writ of habeas corpus. He told the judge that he would soon be filing such a petition. "I understand this man's a pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...
Surrey, who received his LLB from Columbia in 1932, first entered the government as a lawyer for the National Recovery Administration...
...Jermiah Smith Jr. Professorship of Law honors a Harvard graduate and Boston lawyer who helped solve the financial problems of Hungary, China, and Mexico after World War I. Smith came from a legal family: his father was the Story Professor of Law at Harvard, and his great-grandfather helped Daniel Webster argue the famous Dartmouth College case...
...Harvard student testified that he saw no punching during the arrest, the D.A. asked him if he approved of Collins' political philosophy, and Viola added, "You don't like police much, do you?" When a second, unsympathetic, witness testified that she also saw no punching, John Flym, Collins, lawyer, asked her if she agreed with Collins' politics. Viola objected, telling her she need not answer the question. When a third witness for the defense, the only black at the hearings, began to give his name, Viola told him "not to put on a show" and "to keep his voice down...