Word: sacramento
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...size scales from Hong Kong to various police departments. In Los Angeles, the scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope-sellers' measure. Many marijuana users are taking no chances. "Head shops" report brisk sales 'of the pocket scales ($1.50 retail) to users who want to weigh in just...
Other California lawyers grumble that Sacramento Attorney Edward P. Freidberg is "a wise guy just looking for trouble." What bugs them is not that Freidberg, at 40, is one of the busiest medical-malpractice lawyers on the West Coast, and earns an income that allows him a large house in Sacramento, an apartment in Los Angeles, a condominium in Hawaii and a pair of race horses. Freidberg upsets his colleagues because he is pioneering in what promises to be a busy new activity in the field of professional malpractice: big-money court suits against negligent lawyers...
Damn Fool. One of the early big-money cases of legal malpractice was the one that drew Lawyer Freidberg into the field. In 1967 Rosemary Smith, a Sacramento housewife, sued to divorce her husband, a retired general in the state National Guard. Her lawyer advised her that she had no claim to a share of her husband's pension. Then after the settlement she learned that such benefits are indeed considered community property in California. Mrs. Smith decided to sue her counsel. Three lawyers declined to take the case; Freidberg accepted it, took the attorney to court and eventually...
...Sacramento the following day, Lynette Alice ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, faced sentencing for having tried to shoot Ford with a .45-cal. pistol in the city's Capitol Park last Sept. 5. Fromme, a member of the bizarre "family" of convicted Murderer Charles Manson, carried over her arm the same red robe she had worn on that day, as well as an apple ("For you, your honor," she said when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride noticed it). After U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was full of "hate and violence," Squeaky hurled the apple...
...final day of her trial, she arrived in court carrying the red robe that she had been wearing on the day of the incident. When she disrupted the proceedings, the judge sent her to wait in a cell of the federal courthouse in Sacramento. There she even refused to watch her fate unfold on closed-circuit TV. Boycotting her own trial, defiant to the end, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, was found guilty last week of attempting to assassinate President Ford. She could be sentenced to prison for life...