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...statistics of delinquency form the background of the crisis which blew up with the Brooklyn grand jury investigation of school crime. Judge Samuel Leibowitz and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen traded charges and countercharges. The Board of Education hinted that the tragic suicide of junior high principal George Goldfarb resulted from a member of the jury's threat that he might be indicted on unspecified charges...
...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...
...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...