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...JUDITH PRETTYMAN SHARPE Miami Springs...
Learning from Bondsmen. In 1960, Georgetown launched the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowships (named for an alumnus U.S. judge), which annually pay up to eleven graduate students an average $7,000, plus fees and tuition, to spend a year defending indigents. So far, the fellows have defended almost 2,500 clients, thus learning trial law while earning master's degrees and providing needed representation in the process...
With the Ford Foundation paying the tab, Prettyman Fellows first spend two months studying some 600 cases, holding mock trials and visiting police stations. They get advice from judges, psychiatrists, even bail bondsmen. By midyear, a typical Prettyman fellow is handling no fewer than five misdemeanor cases, ten felonies, a couple of appeals and a constant series of preliminary hearings-all the while attending night classes at Georgetown and writing research papers...
Nearly all Prettyman graduates feel duty bound to spend at least a couple of years carrying on with such public service; about half seem committed to it permanently. As one student put it: "I came here interested in corporate practice and good living. I've been made to feel guilty unless I'm defending an indigent...
...Pilot Francis Gary Powers been under thicker wraps than those that enveloped him last week. Although the President described him as "a free agent," he remained in a top-secret hideout under the vigilant custody of the Federal Government. Questioning by a board headed by Federal Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, plus intensive analysis of his account by CIA agents, had convinced the Government that Powers acquitted himself well as a Russian captive. But Powers' scheduled emergence from hiding was postponed while CIA Boss John McCone, with the Prettyman report in his hands, continued checking details of Powers' testimony...