Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Supreme Court of Greece of this year, Attorney Paradopulos brought suit; he demanded "that Socrates' innocence be re-established." The modern court of Athens refused to consider the plea, on the ground that legal action would be empty and superfluous. World opinion, they decided, had completely vindicated the liberal Socrates...
...defense witnesses and defendants in the case were summoned to a closed meeting in University Hall yesterday afternoon at which the University authorities connected with the case and the legal counsel for the students were present...
...psychological terms he attempts to account for this defection. The real reason need not by shrouded in abstractions. From time immemorial, these professions have not been absent, from the stock, in trade of humorists. To remain consistent with their early merry selves, college humorists doubtless steer very clear of legal and ecclesiastical waters. Humorists may be a number of things, but they are not traitors...
Added to this there has been brought into play the caste feeling of solidarity among men of the legal profession; it becomes a matter of group-loyality to save the face of a judge subject to public criticism...
...neither of these two cases has the evidence of guilt beeen absolutely incontestable; in neither case have the tactics of the government prosecution been without their critics. In both cases the defense has refused to accept the verdict, and legal battles extending over many years have been waged. In both cases, also, the verdicts have attracted world-wide interest, and the cause of the defendants has been espoused by many of the most eminent legal minds...