Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas' dour, white-haired Republican Congressman Edward Rees seized the moment to bring up his bill for establishment of a five-man federal board of review, which would pass on the loyalty of all employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through...
...long-range significance of the Nürnberg trial," Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of the top Nazis, once said, "lies in the effort to demonstrate ... the supremacy of law over such lawless and catastrophic forces as war. . . ." Had the lesson sunk...
...revolt was a very personal matter. Romero, a scapegrace distinguished by the possession of eleven fingers (double thumb on the left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...
...pleading. Sample: "[The lawyer] must do the jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many of his readers in flight long before they finish For the Defense...
...jurors had just seen U.S. jurisprudence rise to brave heights in a Southern courtroom; they had sat before a determined, able prosecutor, a stern and impartial judge. But the jurors were only temporarily a part of the court; they belonged in the little town which lay in the rain outside. If they convicted white men for the lynching of a Negro they would risk social ostracism, perhaps violence...