Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School, where he attended class from 8:30 to 3:30 and worked in a hospital from 4 to midnight. After graduation he moved to Gary and began the practice of law, was soon in politics-first as a deputy county prosecutor and then, starting in 1963, as a member of the city council. He was soon baptized in the hazards of his profession. His enemies attempted to hook him on a drunk-driving charge; the trap might have worked except that Baptist Hatcher is well known to be a lifelong teetotaler...
...passed the Ohio bar examination in 1957, Stokes resigned his court job and went into law practice with his brother. A year later Mayor Anthony Celebrezze appointed him an assistant prosecutor under City Law Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor...
...night meeting with Taft, in which the loser proclaimed Cleveland "the least bigoted city in America" and Mrs. Taft gave Shirley Stokes a bouquet of long-stemmed roses, the mayor-elect named a new police chief, Inspector Michael ("Sledgehammer Mike") Blackwell; a safety director, Joseph McManamon; and a police prosecutor, James Carnes. All three are white. One of the first orders to the police department was to discard the riot helmets that had symbolized hostility to the ghetto dwellers...
...laugh once. The prosecutor asks Ryan what position one of his thugs holds. Ryan answers, He's my scientific cattle breeder. Why does he wear a gun for his work? the prosecutor demands. Robards pipes up: "Maybe he has to force the cattle!" One yuk for 110 minutes of squirming...
...appeal was mounted, and last year, for a variety of reasons-among them the prosecutor's suppression of evidence-the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the conviction. Last week at the new trial, the girl-now married and the mother of two-did not even show up to testify. The prosecution's case collapsed, and the Giles brothers walked out of court as free men. Strategy is now being mapped to free Johnson as well...