Word: yarbrough
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False Promises. Perhaps not. The Texas bar has recently been learning a lot about Yarbrough's legal abilities -and his courtroom experience as a defendant. While running in the primary, Yarbrough had 13 civil suits against him pending in state and federal courts. Last June, just after his nomination, a Houston jury returned a verdict against him in a suit charging him with malpractice and false promises. Says former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, now back practicing law in Houston: "From all I can ascertain, he does not have the qualifications to sit on the supreme court." The grievance...
...Even if Yarbrough is disbarred, can he be kept off the bench? The state constitution requires only that a supreme court justice be 35 years old and have been a lawyer for ten years; it is mum on whether a justice must be an attorney when he takes his seat. Only the Texas supreme court itself can sort the matter out. Some Texas lawyers are hoping that the question will never arise. Efforts are under way to find a write-in candidate who can beat Yarbrough in the November election. It will be a long shot. A write...
Last May many Texas liberals went to the polls believing they had an opportunity to back another true-blue Yarborough in the Democratic primary contest for a state supreme court seat. They were wrong-in a Texas-size way. Houston Attorney Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, won because too many voters apparently failed to notice that he lacked two prerequisites: a second o in his surname and, more important, qualifications-liberal or otherwise. A born-again Baptist, Yarbrough attributes his victory to God's will. Says he: "I can't take credit for it. I lay it all before...
Barrow campaigned extensively on his record of 17 years on the bench and was a 10-to-l favorite in a poll of Texas Bar Association members. Yarbrough spent $350 on his campaign, made one speech and beat Barrow with 60% of the vote. Since he is unopposed in the November general election, Yarbrough confidently plans to take his seat on the state supreme court next January...
...usual Sunday night service in an unprepossessing church in Riverside, Calif. But dozens of worshipers in the Faith Tabernacle Church were struck to the floor, trembling in mystical ecstasy, after a visitation from what they believed was the Holy Spirit. Shouted their pastor, the Rev. Pat Yarbrough: "The Spirit of God is moving like the breeze!" One congregant, interviewed later at his job, said simply: "I got zapped." The most moving testimony was the choked-up avowal of the church organist, a pretty young woman named Judy, who said about Jesus: "It's a pity that such...