Word: mellish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the double coincidence of names has unnerved shareholders of the Encino bank, so John Keating will probably change its name to avoid any more confusion. He jokes that he may also rechristen himself Fielding Mellish, the name of the goofy dictator in Woody Allen's 1971 movie Bananas...
...prosecutor later subpoenaed the clergyman, John Mellish of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, and asked him to reveal what Sands might have told...
...Mellish, 32, the father of three sons, refused, invoking the right to confidentiality for conversations with someone he was counseling. Such a claim has normally been honored by judges in the U.S., but Mellish was sentenced to 60 days for contempt of court and spent one night in jail earlier this month. He is now free on bond while an appeals court reviews his case...
...quandary results from growing public alarm over child abuse, which has led to numerous state laws requiring anyone who knows about such a crime to inform authorities. In at least 20 states, toughened child-abuse laws have eliminated the longstanding legal and societal recognition of the "clergy-penitent privilege." Mellish would face no legal trouble if the crime were murder or rape; clergy in Florida are forced to testify only concerning abuse of children, the aged and the handicapped. His jailing, however brief, has prompted united interreligious support, with Roman Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis joining Protestants to back Mellish...
...happens, the Mellish case is not the only one currently in court. There is at least one other, which turns on a somewhat narrower set of facts. In Arizona, David Crumbaugh, a Pentecostal minister, is fighting a six-month contempt sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to testify about what the wife of a convicted child killer told him while he counseled both during the murder trial. But Crumbaugh "got weak for a moment," as he put it, and has already signed an affidavit detailing what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition...