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...EARL J. WYMAN...
...time a president of the Mississippi Bar Association makes a speech, most Americans might give odds that he would include a blast at the U.S. Supreme Court. But Earl T. Thomas, partner in a top Jackson law firm, produced something quite different last week in a talk to Mississippi judges on "how to improve the administration of justice...
...courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included the entire Mississippi Supreme Court, they also surprised him. "Earl, that's just what we need," said one admiring judge...
...phenomenon comparable to the effect of 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which led to the retrial and acquittal of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon and gave all defendants the right to counsel in state criminal trials. In Florida alone, 5,554 previously convicted prisoners have since petitioned for new trials, and 1,081 have already won their freedom...
...honor of President Kennedy, and Burl Ives went so far as to enclose with his card a sermon by the Dean of Duke University Chapel, entitled "Bethlehem and Bedlam." But along with all the frankincense and myrrh was an ever increasing band of Scrooges-Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Earl Warren among them -who continued to cry humbug to the greeting game and sent no cards...