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Emile Zola Berman, famous trial lawyer who defended Marine Sergeant Matthew McKeon, last night urged law students to take up trial practice as a career in order to make a "really lasting contribution" to justice...
Berman said that the lawyer must become an expert in every field that has a bearing on his case, and noted that in the McKeon case, he had to study hydrography to defend his position that panic caused the death of the six recruits rather than any sudden dropoff or deep place in the boondocks at Parris Island...
...wrote Navy Secretary Charles Thomas last week in drastically reducing the rigorous court-martial sentence of Marine Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, who led six marine recruits to their death on a disciplinary march last spring (TIME, April 23 et seq.). Thomas cut the sentence from nine months' hard labor to three months (leaving McKeon to complete four more weeks), canceled a $270 fine and a bad-conduct discharge, confirmed the reduction in grade to private...
...Sergeant McKeon was a capable noncommissioned officer, dedicated to the U.S. Marine Corps ... a good man, sincere, and of a sympathetic nature," wrote the Secretary. "I, in my mind, am sure that Sergeant McKeon never meant to harm his men ... I am convinced that a punitive separation from the service is not necessary . . . nor would the interests of the Marine Corps be served. [But] retention of McKeon as a noncommissioned officer with command authority [could not] be justly rationalized on the theory that his tragic failure to meet command responsibility constituted merely a single lapse in his performance of duty...
...recognize that the road back will be a hard one ... I am giving him his chance." Said McKeon when he heard the news...