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...cites two cases from early in his career among his proudest moments as a lawyer. At age 28, as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund, Harper argued on behalf of black Little Rock, Ark. residents seeking membership in an all-white club. He took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?...
...never go to trial, sources in the case tell TIME. Judge John E. Ott announced Monday that their trial date has been moved from June to November - a delay, according to the sources, that is the result of infighting over a plea agreement among federal prosecutors, the Alabama state attorney and three county prosecutors. The issue: where the trio will serve their jail time...
...Matthew Cloyd, 20, and Russell DeBusk Jr. and Benjamin Moseley, both 19, were charged with breaking both state and federal laws, and have been in federal lockup since their March 8 arrest. In such cases, says U.S. attorney Alice Martin, local prosecutors typically agree to a federal sentence in federal prison, if only to save the locals money. But in this racially charged case (five of the churches burned were predominantly black), bringing justice home is an issue. "They will do time in Alabama. I am not bending on that," says Bibb County DA Michael Jackson. Meanwhile, Alabama Attorney General...
...sticking point is whether to allow the federal and state sentences to run concurrently, with the trio serving all their time in federal lockup. Attorneys for the three men are seeking a federal minimum of seven years, with any state sentence to run concurrently. Alabama prosecutors may still demand at least seven years jail time for each crime. "In this case, everyone wants their pound of flesh," says DeBusk's attorney Brett Bloomston...
...recruitment of women and minority faculty, a report released by them in the summer of 1982 declared that “recent improvement in the numbers of women and minority faculty satisfy any questions raised by the complaint.”WEAL’s staff attorney queried this decision, however, alleging that the KSG had committed only to hiring one new female faculty member in the next six years and no minorities. A WEAL spokesman postulated that it reflected the priorities of the Reagan administration, which was “reluctant to press private institutions on affirmative action...