Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep in the wilds of the Porcupine Mountains. "I crept out onto a creek bank," he recalls, "and about 100 yards upstream stood a deer. I raised my rifle and shot it. That was it; the season was just an hour old, and I already had my limit. Right there I decided to give up gun hunting. It was too darned easy...
...affectation. He grew up in Hollis, Okla. (pop. 3,006), on the edge of the state's dust bowl. He and his three brothers and one sister had to sleep with wet rags across their faces to filter the air they breathed. "We had a little place right on Highway 62," he recalls. "I used to stand in the front yard and watch the trucks go by, jammed with people heading for California...
Flagrant Examples. The week began with a cease-fire between the judge and Seale. Hoffman allowed the Panther to be unbound, but Seale still insisted upon his right to act as his own counsel. When a California deputy sheriff testified that he had seen Seale board a plane in San Francisco for Chicago, the defendant leaped to his feet and started cross-examining the witness...
...Scale's misconduct. When he announced that Scale's case would be "severed" from the others, Seale blurted out: "Hey, what are you trying to pull now?" When told that he would be brought to trial again in April, Seale replied: "I demand an immediate trial right...
...which Hoffman issued the contempt sentences constituted an evasion of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in Bloom v. Illinois. In that case, the high court ruled that a man who faces a substantial sentence (six months in federal trials) on a contempt charge has a right to have his case heard by a jury. As critics saw it, Hoffman thought he could avoid the jury requirement in Scale's case by handing down 16 separate sentences-none of them as long as six months...