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...away-the-key era, however, it is hard to drum up sympathy for poor, often minority, often guilty defendants. "In the war on crime," says Nicholas Chiarkas, Wisconsin's state public defender, "many people think of public defenders as representing the enemy." John Holdridge, director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project, agrees. "This is the most unpopular issue around," he says...
...evidence is clear that AARP has also drifted considerably from any reasonable description of a non-profit organization." Perhaps as testimony to the financial muscle of AARP, no other Republican members of the panel showed up. Just two Democrats -- Sens. David Pryor of Arkansas and John Breaux of Louisiana -- stood by Simpson. At the end of the day, AARP released a statement accusing Simpson of trying to divert attention from its efforts to protect Medicare and Social Security...
Other notable authors on the list include Harry Oster '45, a retired professor of English, who spent the years between 1955 and 1963 recording folk music in Louisiana, and Paul Schneider '45, who wrote episodes for television shows ranging from "Star Trek" to "The Six Million Dollar...
...weeks ago, some classmates and I took a trip to the United States Supreme Court. The trip was much more than a field trip or a vacation; we had the opportunity to witness oral arguments for two landmark voting rights cases, Hayes v. Louisiana and Johnson v. Miller. Both involved the question of whether Southern states could create congressional districts with a majority of Black voters to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The Court's decision may dramatically change the substantial gains by Blacks in practically all of the Deep South states...
Jones understands that he has set himself up for many such threats. He realizes too that in the coming months it will be necessary to explain repeatedly to Americans horrified by the blast why the Timothy McVeighs of this world deserve legal counsel. But the Louisiana-born, Texas-bred, aw-shucks county lawyer tells Time that he is fully prepared to stick with his role as champion of the underdog. After all, he has supported losing causes before: Nixon and Roger Dale Stafford, Oklahoma's most notorious death-row inmate, and his own three unsuccessful bids for electoral office. Says...