Word: mississippi
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...MISSISSIPPI. In a state where Republican used to be a dirty word, the G.O.P. has elected a U.S. Representative, a state senator, two state representatives, four county attorneys, three mayors and six aldermen. Democratic Governor Paul Johnson glumly admits that the G.O.P. is likely to win even more offices next year...
...powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor killed at the University of Virginia, and the president of Mississippi's Oakland College stabbed to death by a student...
...wrong to say, "not in living memory has a white Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro" [Nov. 19]. On July 27, 1960, in the Circuit Court of Grenada County, Fifth Judicial District, Mississippi, a white male, L. J. Loden, was charged with raping a Negro female. He was indicted, prosecuted by District Attorney Chatwin M. Jackson Jr. of Kosciusko, Miss., and found guilty by an all-white male jury. He is serving a life sentence in the Mississippi State Penitentiary...
...Gideon retroactive; it later ex tended the ruling to all defendants who plead guilty rather than stand trial (up to 90% in some states). In addition, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled last January that Gideon applies to misdemeanors as well as felonies (Harvey v. Mississippi...
Learning by Defending. As a result of all this, says Research Attorney Lee Silverstein of the American Bar Foundation, 26 states have instituted vital reforms. In the American Bar Association Journal, Silverstein reports that the Gideon case has particularly affected Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, where a poor man's right to free counsel previously covered only capital cases. The right now covers felonies in all five states. Florida, which produced Gideon, has set up a statewide public-defender system and now permits law students to defend indigents-as do New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Massachusetts...