Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shifting from the role of tough prosecutor to circuit-riding preacher, he went to the annual presidential prayer breakfast, where he said: "We cannot know what the morrow will bring. We can know that to meet its challenges and to withstand its assaults, America never stands taller than when her people get to their knees." Then he added: "I can, and I do, tell you that in these long nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman...
Royalist Removals. Even as it gained status abroad, the junta consolidated its position at home by punishing the officials and army officers who had sided with the King. It removed former Premier Constantine Kollias, who had accompanied the King on his flight to Rome, from his post as Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and gave dishonorable discharges to 33 army officers, including Lieut. General George Peridis, who tried to rally army troops in northern Greece to the King's cause. It also dismissed 56 university professors for disloyalty to the regime and barred them from teaching in Greece...
With his key lieutenants, the prosecutor claimed, Amer began mailing out anti-Nasser pamphlets and plotting his next move. Among several plans discussed was one wild scheme for jumping Nasser outside his home, popping him into a sack and driving off with him. The final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...
...week the nine Justices listened while lawyers for both sides presented oral arguments. The New York case involved the conviction of a store owner for selling four girlie publications, and when Justice Brennan pointed out that two of the magazines-Sir and Escapade-had previously been ruled non-obscene, Prosecutor William Cahn responded that while they may not be obscene to adults, they are to children...
...prosecution case is usually aided by such a technically improper jury assumption, and defense lawyers are hardly happy about it. Says Indianapolis Attorney John Raikos: "The real evil of conspiracy is that it is a vehicle used by the prosecutor to get in evidence that he could not otherwise possibly get in." Some legal scholars agree. Yale Law Professor Abraham Goldstein says: "It threatens the whole fair-trial notion." And, he adds, it crowds the maxim of Anglo-Saxon law that a man cannot be punished for evil intent alone...