Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILIP C. WALLWORK Safety Director Automobile Legal Association Boston
...Eager to rejoice in the Supreme Court's apparent step backward toward your own smug preference for guarding society from "smut peddlers," [April 1] you neglect to criticize the Ginzburg case for its deviation from the legal distinction between direct and hearsay evidence: is obscenity now to be defined by examining not the product itself but how the salesman touts it? If indeed Americans so desperately need guidance that censorship is necessary, let our mentors at least concern themselves with the contents of the allegedly pornographic package instead of its wrapping...
However clear the failures of Southern justice, it is far from clear what should be done about them without weakening the nation's legal structure. Certainly no one wants to destroy the jury system in order to correct its abuses. After the Hayneville acquittal, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it's too high a price. The situation has changed a great deal already...
Maria's legal triumph over finance and wedlock was based largely on an accident of birth. Her parents were Greek, but she was born in New York, which made her a citizen of both Greece and the U.S.-a combination that to Maria, at least, seemed to offer nothing special. For the last few years, in fact, she has made her home in Paris and Monte Carlo...
...represented by paid public defenders, and last year Clark suggested that law students could aid the federal defenders while learning the art of advocacy in the process. Such on-the-job training for students would serve much the same purpose as the back-to-school movement that provides continuing legal education for practicing attorneys (TIME, March 25); it might also enlarge the nation's short supply of trial lawyers by whetting the appetites of fledglings who would otherwise pass up such prac tice in favor of other specialties...