Proposal to pool defense lawyers for state support
Washington AP A start ling plan to draw prosecutors and defense lawyers from a common pool funded by states was unveiled by the National Defender Conference. Professor Lewis Katz of Case Western Reserve proposed civil service staffs in state justice departments to fill prosecutor and defender roles, aiming to lift criminal law from a private battle of wits to a public duty and reduce the influence of a defendant’s wealth on outcomes.
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Washington
National Defender Conference
Lewis Katz
Case Western Reserve Law School
Cleveland
National Defender Project
Kate
Michigan Bar Association
Katz
Departments of Justice
Civil Service
Peps
National Defender Proster
Ford Foundation
Rash of tornadoes injures many across Midwest
A rash of tornadoes ripped through Indiana Ohio and Kentucky injuring scores and damaging homes as storms swept the Midwest. Debris blocked roads power lines were downed and rescue work faced delays. Tornadoes touched off near Indianapolis Greencastle Maud Mauston Valley Mills Lafayette and Terre Haute with several towns reporting hospital treatment and power outages.
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Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Midwest
Maud
Mauston
Monroe
Hamilton
Valley Mills
Ind
Indianapolis
Bellevelle
Columbus
Purdue University
Lafayette
New Market
Terre Haute
Plainfield
Richmond
Danville
Belli May Take Sirhan's Appeal
In Beverly Hills, Sirhan Sirhan's mother met with attorney Melvin Belli to discuss pursuing an appeal for her son, the Kennedy assassination defendant. Belli indicated he will take over Sirhan's appeal, per the San Francisco report.
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Belli
Sirhan
Beverly Hills
Calif
Sirhan Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Melvin Belli
San Franciscan
Chuckle Wives Contrast with Fishermen Wives
Fragmentary note mentions wives and bragging about partners, with unclear names or dates. The text contrasts wives with fishermen and hints at boasting about whom Wal put away and complaints about the catch. Lacks verifiable individuals or events.
Weekend campus disorders spark jail terms and protests
United Press International reports on college upheavals nationwide. Dartmouth students begin a0 day jail terms after seizing a building in Hanover New Hampshire while sit ins persist at Lincoln University Missouri and Madison Wisconsin confrontations flare near University of Wisconsin. Authorities bolster security at Indiana University and Stanford trustees face death threats amid antiwar protests. Nuns and a professor at St Peter's College Jersey City join a fifth day hunger strike protesting contract nonrenewal. About 10 Cincinnati fieldhouse protesters place white crosses as a ROTC assembly draws clashes. Police intervene at New York campuses Brookyln and Queens as fires and arson are alleged. The piece notes ongoing investigations, disciplinary actions, and a grand jury inquiry in Monroe County.
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Dartmouth College
Hanover
Lincoln University
Jefferson City
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Indiana University
Bloomington
New York
Hat
St Peter's College
Jersey City
University of Cincinnati
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Sue Laquiense
Allany Aire
Ben Pugh
Lin-coln University
Lincoln
Dartmouth
George Papademas
City College
Brooklyn College
Queens College
Monroe County
Stanford University
William Hewlett
Hewlett-Packwood Co
Chin
Earle Maiman
Marietta College
Four Die in Los Angeles Airport Crash Over Carnival
A vintage bomber crashed after takeoff from International Airport near El Segundo, striking apartments and a baseball field. Four North American Rockwell employees died: Marlin Easton the pilot, John Claghorn, Leht, and Christipher. Debris injured a 10 year old girl and many escaped unharmed as fire raged 200 feet high.
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Los Angeles
API
North American Rockwell Corp
International Airport
EL ‘Segundo
Ocean
Jim Peterson
Rockwell
Defense Department
Marlin Easton
John Claghorn
Leht and
Christiopher
Elmer Sterck
Aerospace Company
Debbie Ryerson
Move To Impeach Fortas If He Stays On
Rep A R Gross urged impeachment if Justice Abe Fortas remains on the bench after a $20000 Wolfson Foundation fee issue. Gross said an impeachment petition is ready and noted support from Taft and Poff while Mondale called for Fortas resignation as a national tragedy.
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Gross
Fortas
Washington
A. R. Gross
Abe Fortas
Supreme Court
Iowa | Republican
Des Moines Sunday Register
Portas
House
Robert Taft
Ohio
Richard Poff
Virginia
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
Congress
Wolfson Family Foundation
Democratic Johnson
Mondale
Minneapolis
Taft
Witless Fortas
Louis ‘Wolfson
Lonely Mother's Day for Minnie Nash in Decatur
A Decatur family faces a Mother's Day separated by crime and jail. Minnie Lee Nash, 63, sees her four sons entangled in legal trouble as one remains at large after a county jail escape, others face prison terms, and a daughter is jailed on gun smuggling charges. The battered home life includes separation from her husband and welfare reliance as she prays for family safety and return.
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Decatur
Ala
API — JL
Minnie Lee Nash
Oscar
Kilby
Montgomery
Taster
Nixon To Confer Today With Rocky In Florida
New York UPI report says Governor Nelson Rockefeller will meet President Nixon in Key Biscayne Florida before starting a Latin America fact finding mission. The aim is to listen to leaders of the American republics and discuss joint programs to boost Western Hemisphere unity and development. Rockefeller plans four trips on the initial leg to Mexico Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica and Panama, returning May 14.
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New York
UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Fla
Latin America
Western Hemisphere
Rockefeller
Uresses
Albany
Mexico
Guatemala
el Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Soviet worry over Czech public response to Hušák moves
Prague UPI reports the Soviet Union is concerned by the lack of public reaction in Czechoslovakia to Gustav Husak's latest measures to normalize the country. Reliable Communist party sources say Moscow approves efforts to curb alleged anti Soviet and anti socialist activities.
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Prague
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Gustav Husak
Thisak
Mistrial Declared For Seven In Dahmer Case In Mississippi
An all white federal jury in Meridian acquitted three of the ten defendants in the Vernon Dahmer civil rights conspiracy case and declared a mistrial on seven others after 11 hours of deliberation. The seven remaining defendants will face retrial as soon as possible. Deboxtel Nix Noble were released on bond, while others remain free or in custody on state charges. Dahmer, a Hattiesburg area Black leader, died after a January 1966 firebomb attack on his home and store.
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Meridian
Miss
Jones County
Ku Klux
Hattiesburg
Vernon Dahmer
William Travis Giles
Frank Lyons
Lester Thornton
Sam Bowers
Henry Edward Debostel
Deavours Nix
Charles Richard Noble
Cecil ‘Victor Sessom
William ‘J'honas Smith
Charles Clifford Wilson
Vernon F. Dahmer
Hattiesburg Area
Dahmer
U.S. District Court
Dana Russell
Ile
Deboxtel
Nix
Noble
He ‘Dahmer
Russell
Daliner
Justice Department
Robert Owen
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