Word: leibowitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homemade pipe-and-powder bombs in theaters and public buildings. Once captured, he turned out to be quiet, round-faced George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor who was more confused than cunning (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, after studying Metesky's medical reports, Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz: "One would be less than human not to be sympathetically moved by this pitiful condition of this hopeless, incurable man-incurable both mentally...
Himself a former criminal lawyer, Leibowitz declared "there is no more soul-satisfying branch of the law than criminal law." He scored law faculties for encouraging "students to make esoteric dissertations on human liberty" yet still discouraging them from entering the criminal practice...
...Leibowitz did not criticize the Law School specifically but maintained that all American law colleges are guilty in this. He stated that law students are not being taught how to look for facts in a case, but are learning "life in an office or life in the library...
...discussing the tricks of cross-examination, Leibowitz urged that law schools form departments of forensic psychology to train students in this art. He maintained that law students should "cram in" courses in public speaking unless they wanted to spend their lives not in trial law but "in an office with 20 names on the door...
Even Bar Associations, Leibowitz said, regard criminal lawyers "as a professor of medicine would an abortionist...