Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffa is certain to appeal his conviction, but in the meantime he has other problems. Such as money. In the last few years, the Teamsters have spent perhaps $1,000,000 defending their beleaguered boss, but in May a move was launched to make Hoffa pay his own legal bills. Hoffa huffed that he would pay "out of my own pocket," but that takes some mighty deep pockets, even with his $75,000-a-year salary and his other well stocked resourses. Tran scripts of the Chicago testimony alone may cost...
Battle Training. Combatting such reluctance is a top-priority job for the Chicago-based National Defender Project, the first significant effort to set up a system of fulltime public defenders throughout the U.S. An offshoot of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the project was started last year with $2,300,000 from the Ford Foundation. Last month Ford gave it another $2,000,000, which amounted to an openhanded vote of confidence in the project's staff and distinguished new director, the U.S. Army's recently retired Judge Advocate General Charles L. Decker (West Point...
...Director Decker, who was founder of the Army's Judge Advocate General School and of the nation's first independent military judiciary, will siphon much of his Ford Foundation money into model defender agencies in Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington-"grey area" cities with slum-bred legal problems. Matching funds will go to other cities and counties willing eventually to pay the full bill for embryo defender agencies. Since 90% of court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses and trial-training internships for recent law graduates...
Fuchsberg asserted that the legal profession had nothing comparable to the internship program of medical schools. "As a result," he told the ATLA's nation al convention in New York, "our courts are not manned with skilled advocates who can assure the public that the courts are becoming true testing grounds for justice...
...years," he said. "It's like letting medical students practice on the basis of theory alone. Law school moot trials are merely glorified debates, because they are patterned on the appellate courts, which are not concerned with the gathering of evidence and the marshalling of an argument. A legal internship is what we're after...