Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows how deeply the Sept. 3 inquest at Edgartown will test Kennedy's story. Some lawyers think that the hearing can legally consider only the immediately pertinent questions of whether and how much Kennedy had been drinking, what time he left the party with Mary Jo and how fast he was driving at the time his black Oldsmobile leaped off the Dike Bridge. After all, an inquest is structured to be a kind of legal fishing expedition to determine whether or not a crime may have been committed...
Even though the Kopechnes are depending upon the inquest to explain the circumstances of Mary Jo's death more precisely, they last week hired a lawyer to fight legal moves by Massachusetts District Attorney Edmund Dinis to have their daughter's body exhumed and an autopsy performed. "What could an autopsy prove now?" Mrs. Kopechne asked. "It's all turned into a political issue...
...that prosecution is easy under the best of circumstances. The gangsters' well-paid legal corps takes full advantage of the Bill of Rights. The Mob's muscle often takes care of potential witnesses. It takes a brave citizen to call the police. Also, most of the evidence gathered by the FBI, until recently, was not admissible in court...
...Stadium '69" concert series--which weathered a brief legal squall yesterday--will begin as scheduled tonight with folksinger John Baez...
...institute, the teachers spent the morning in traditional classroom sessions on campus, hearing lectures by experts on the legal and medical problems of the poor, employment, community-action programs and school decentralization. This constituted their "basic training," explains Ray Towbis, 37, a tough-talking product of Brooklyn slums who, together with City College's Don Peterson, helped organize the institute, and did much of the lecturing. "In the afternoon, they went into combat They weren't going out on no field trips to see the natives. The real contents of the course was in the streets...