Word: commitments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Laredo, Tex, judge sentences Leary to 30 years in prison and a $30,000 fine for transporting and failing to pay a tax on marijuana. He explains that state law requires him to impose the maximum sentense in order to commit Leary for 90 days of psychiatric examination. Leary plan an appeal, which his lawyer says will be based on freedom of religion, freedom to raise one's own family as one sees fit, and freedom to pursue scientific truth...
Some of O'Donnell's sides charged that the convention was a "tarce." They claimed that many people at the convention were required to commit their votes to the choices of local politicians who controlled the selection of delegates...
...Viet Nam war game in which their military and political power was allocated among such persons as President Johnson, U.S. Senators, Premier of South Viet Nam, Viet Cong and Ho Chi Minh in realistic ratios; to be 90% certain of winning a battle, for example, the allies had to commit five times as many military points to offset the natural advantages of guerrilla troops...
...speak even if he is dead wrong-and he is. But the public is misled about the role of defense lawyers at a time when this role is so vital. There is no valid difference of opinion on whether or not a lawyer should allow his client to commit perjury. The Canons of Ethics are not ambiguous here: Canon 15 commands that the lawyer "obey his own conscience and not that of his client." No duty owed the client by the lawyer or the adversary system requires a lawyer to lie or permit his client to lie in court...
...Orange Free State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...