Word: regardless
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...Regardless of his actual guilt, notes Freedman, the U.S. defendant is presumed innocent until the prosecution proves him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As a result, the defendant may remain silent-while the jury scrutinizes his lawyer's every word for any hint of doubt as to his client's innocence. In this situation, says Freedman, the lawyer's moral dilemma is compounded by the American Bar Association's 1908 Canons of Ethics. While Canon 22 requires "candor" toward the court, Canon 37 tells the lawyer "to preserve his client's confidences," and Canon...
...Most midshipmen are selected by competition for their Congressman's nomination. No matter how many qualified candidates compete for a nomination, only one can be selected. The reverse can be true: if there is only one candidate seeking a particular Congressman's nomination, he may be nominated regardless of his qualifications. This would change if admissions were made nationally, as for the Coast Guard Academy. DAVID M. SISSON Deerfield Academy Deerfield, Mass...
...most moderate white nominees available. "To give the Negro the vote," says Amelia Boynton, chairman of the Dallas County Voters League, "has cost worry, blood, sweat, jobs and lives. It is a privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even...
...France. What Europe needs, in effect, says Poignant, is an American-style high school system, with all students in the same kind of school through the age of 16 or 18. Then the slugging match to enter colleges would not be shut off to any bright child, regardless of background, and both the nations and the children would benefit...
...will also suggest, Miss Wilson said, that all sophomores be bound by the rules that apply to juniors and seniors, rather than those for freshmen. This would mean, under the terms of RGA's newest proposals, that sophomores would not have to ask permission for sign-outs, regardless of hour or duration...