Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Independent-Journal colleague Roger Bockrath caught an astonishing series of photographs (see following page). The gunmen decided to leave Kean behind. They walked out into the warm sunshine wielding guns and highway flares disguised to look like dynamite, then loaded themselves and their five captives into a rented Ford panel truck...
Mississippi black leaders branded the panel's report a "whitewash." A federal grand jury and a special presidential commission will now continue their separate probes. But the troopers are not worried. During the past five years, 13 lawsuits have charged them with various kinds of brutal overreaction. Five are still pending; in all but one of the others, local judges and juries have never ruled against the patrol...
...unidentified participants in the disturbance. Though FBI reports had shown no evidence of sniping and many observers regarded the demonstrators as merely unruly, the grand jury declared that the troopers "had a right and were justified" in firing the 400-round fusillade that killed two black youths. Asserted the panel: "When people take the law into their own hands and engage in civil disorders and riots, they must expect to be injured or killed when officers are required to re-establish order...
When Nixon took office, he rejected even that cursory A.B.A. involvement. Now, he has reversed himself. With Nixon's approval, Attorney General John Mitchell announced that henceforth he will furnish the A.B.A. panel with the "names of persons whom I may have under serious consideration." The committee chairman, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, hailed the move as "the most important innovation in the procedure for selecting Supreme Court nominees which any recent Attorney General has undertaken...
Other lawyers were less impressed. For one thing, the A.B.A. represents less than half the nation's lawyers. For another, the A.B.A. panel is dominated by a narrow segment of successful lawyers who have never turned down any Supreme Court nominee. The panel approved both Haynsworth and Carswell, even after damaging evidence against them had been turned up by other groups. While the committee might block political hacks, scholars fear that it would favor technically qualified judges at the expense of creative or unconventional men needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost...