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Show Foria! ; I.TtJ.I Iil-d- I:- ; Univ?r'.ity rf Uth cait VOLUME lV'h t-ke- v. for a bullet hole, and the gun from which the fatal shot was fired. t Defendant counsel: Vernon B. Romney David S. Young 6thE. Salt Lake City (See details pap 5) Political Acts, Do - far-reachi- ng Nassau the Up 5-1- in 0 PHILADELPHIA (ACCN) County Attorney Joseph Jaspan said they would not decide on an appeal until after they had read Zavatts decision. Zavatt observed that policeman, like teachers and lawyers, are not version relegated to a watered-dow- n of constitutional rights. The challenged statute'does hot distinguish between a partisan and a political fund, or a a and partisan political club, association, society or committee, Zavatt added. 40-pa- ge non-partisi- an non-partis- Zavatt rejected Lefkowitzs government service and advancement based on merit alone and safeguards the public against the exertion of undue political in- Lawyer Incomes 72 - The mean compensation of corporate attorneys increased generally between 5 percent and 10 percent during 1972 according to a report released by Daniel J. Cantor & Company, Inc., management consultants to the legal profession. In its annual publication, 1973 fluence by public officials. Ex-Parki- Lot ng . Economics Study of Corporate Law Staffs, the consulting firm reports a median compensation of $83,100 for general counsel with a deputy, an increase of 9.8 percent. At the other end of the scale, the median compensation for a basic corporate attorney is listed at $17,500, an increase of 2.3 percent. The median compensation of a high level specialist is reported to have risen 11.2 percent to a new high of $32,800. The survey includes information about the salaries, bonuses, and total remuneration for 1019 lawyers from selected corporations in North America. Data was analyzed by the size of the legal staff, the year of admission to the bar, the location of its industrial the company, classification, and its volume of gross sales. Also contained in the study are numerous statistics on fringe benefits available to corporate lawyers, such as additional holidays com- and vacation pensation, schedules, and other benefits. A final portion of the report is concerned with office economics, non-moneta- ry management, costs, and utilization of outside counsel. the more to go on than this, Mystery of the Bedroom Slaying" was solved by Los Angeles Police criminologists. They used a scientific method thats now in its motion to dismiss the suit on the ground that the statute promotes Corporate Staff in- conclusive. The womans husband told officers that he and his wife had gone to bed for the night . . . then, without saying a word, the wife reached into her nightstand, pulled out the pistol, and shot herself. The story seemed incredible, and investigators suspected that the death was caused by murder. With no Judge Rules A WESTBURY, L.I... (UPI) federal court decision reached in Westbury, L.I. June 14, is expected to have a effect on the of activites policeman. political U.S. District Court Judge Joseph C. Zavatt ruled that the New York. State law which forbids policemen to make political contributions or Join political clubs is unconstitutional for vagueness and over breadth." Spokesmen for State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz and analysis was Fingerprint Plaintiff counsel: Raymond S. Shuey Manager Guilty In 72 Skyjack (UPI)-- A former Washington, D.C. parking lot manager, who based his defense on insantiy, has been convicted by a federal court jury, of hijacking a National Airlines jet with 113 a crew of and aborad passengers seven. The jury of six men and six women deliberated 2 hours, June 19, in finding Michael Green, 35, guilty on two counts. Green faces a prison sentence of 20 years to life. His $100,000 bail was revoked by the court. The jetliner was pirated last July 3-- 12 1973 DRI Clinic Many To Cover Defenselssues MILWAUKEE An open forum on improving the claim manager-defens- e counsel working relationis a ship highlight of the Thirteenth Annual Defense on the Offense" 0 Clinic slated for July at the Holiday Inn Central in Milwaukee. The program, by the Insurance Trial Counsel of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Claims 29-2- Council, the Milwaukee Claims Managers Council and the Defense Research Institute, will also include a review of recent developments in Wisconsin tort law, Wisconsin Rules of Evidence and the changing products liability field. The clinic will begin Thursday, July 19, with introductory remarks by Insurance Trial Counsel President Alvin A. Stack and Claims Council President A1 Monigal. both of Milwaukee. Following will be a review of recent legislative and judicial developments in Wisconsin y tort law that affect the of and the claim the lawyer practice W. man. Atty. E. Powell of Milwaukee will discuss developments in the area of wrongful death. day-to-da- PHILADELPHIA over Kennedy International Airport by two gunmen, armed with a shotgun and pistol, and ordered back to Philadelphia. After arriving there, the hijackers transferred with the crew to a second craft, leaving the passengers behind in the first. The second airliner landed the next day on a remote airstrip in Lake Jackson, TexM where the hijackers surrendered to the FBI with their $500,000 ransom. Lulseged Tesfa, 23, an Ethiopian national and Green's alleged accomplice, is awaiting trial, pending the outcome of psychiatric tests. . TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1973 infancy, one with which few police departments have yet had experience. (But the technique used in Los Angeles for about two years seems destined to become a standard investigative tool.) Police sprayed the dead womans hands with an acid solution . . . and the test was positive. It showed she had held a metal object within the preceding few hours and the imprint of that object a gun appeared like a dark shadow on her flesh. The husband submitted to the same test, ana the result was negative. He returned home, with the cloud of suspicion removed. (If there's a wooden butt on the gun, there will still be the imprint of the trigger. And some handles have metal ridges or backstraps" . . . those of Colt guns bear a metal have been baffled. Their only clues to what happened were the dead body of a female, unscathed except John W. Turner, Warden, Utah State Prison Defendant & Respondent Police Can UTAH By Roger M. Grace In days gone by, the police would JAMES RICHARD MOORE Plaintiff & Appellant . WESTERN AMERICANA. New Scientific Detection Data Winning Courtroom Place Habeas Corpus FRIVOLOUS APPEAL DENIED Salt Lake Legal Defenders fjfU2 SALT LAKE CITY, 7. NUMBER 120 Utah Supreme Court Decision 343 S. r - Other topics include punitive silhouette of a rearing horse. These appear clearly on the hand of one who has held such a weapon shortly before the test.) Deputy District Attorney Robert H. Philabosian sought to have the results of such a test admitted into evidence during a recent murder trial but the court refused. The test was too new, the reliability too uncertain, the trial judge ruled. In all likelihood, this will remain the answer of courts for some time to come. It might be remembered that courts were too slow to accept blood tests and fingerprints as evidence. Lie detector results have been admitted by a few trial courts notably in Illinois for as long as 30 years. But the vast majority of courts have shunned them. It has only been recently that trial judges have begun to reconsider the validity of the ban. Since 1969, precedent was upset and the tests were admitted during criminal damages by Bill Sawyer of trials in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Dairyland Insurance Company, Fresno, (Calif.), Denver, Westland Madison ; safe place by Beaver Dam (Mich.), and Los Angeles. attorney Howard H. Boyle Jr.; Robert J. Ferguson Jr., a holder of excess liability by Russell K. Nott of an LLB and author of three books onj the American Family Insurance polygraphy, told this writer he Group, Madison; and professional believes that rejection of the tests is liability by Milwaukee attorney attributable to "precedent comRobert E. Cook. pounded upon precedent" stemming "The Press and Society" will be from the infamous Frye case in the subject of the Thursday luncheon 1923. address by Richard H. Leonard, In Frye v. United States, Ferguson editor and vice president of the explained, a District of Columbia Milwaukee Journal. trial court (presided over by the During the July 19 afternoon chief justice of the District Supreme session. Miami attorney Gerard E. Court) rejected results of a systolic Pyszka will explore the handling and blood pressure test which showed preparation of products liability the defendant was telling the truth. cases. He will also discuss the im- The accused had already completed pact of the new Consumer Product his testimony when the results were Safety Act and the Occupational offered, and the judge told his Safety and Health. Act on the lawyer: You ought to have had the products field. Judge Richard W. test made at the time he was Orton, of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, testifying if you wanted it at all." ' Lancaster, Wis., will conclude the (The man was convicted, Ferguson session with a concise review and noted, but freed three years later interpretation of recent changes in after further police investigations the Wisconsin Code of Evidence. bore out his story.) will clinic defense the Highlighting Ferguson, chief polygrapher for be the Friday morning, July 20, Texas Industrial Security, made session on improving the claim these points: counsel working manager-defensIt is not possible to fool the of relationship. Representatives from polygraph by injection both sides will join in a discussion of tranquilizers or other drugs. You problem areas such as, file would have to take an awful lot of preparation, settlement authority drugs . . . enough that it would be and cost control in the readily discernible to the polygraph of a case. Panelists will include: operator. Janesville attorney James E. Pathological liars are a rarity Brennan, Green Bay attorney and "most of them are not walking William S. Pfankuch; Charles S. free. Only once, since I began in Scott of Badger Mutual Insurance 1958, have I tested a person who was Company, Milwaukee; and Russell telling a lie, but completely Miller of General Casualty Company believing it at the time. of Wisconsin, Madison. LeRoy E. Polygraphs of course could Kennedy, of Northwestern National not replace trials or obviate the need Insurance Group, Milwaukee, will for juries. All thats claimed is that act as moderator, with the par- courts should admit these tests as ticipants building their remarks they admit ballistics, drunkometer around questions from the audience and fingerprint evidence. To date, no appellate court has and from one another. Over 300 defense attorneys and ever upheld the admission of these insurance executives from the four-stat- e tests, but, Ferguson said, hes area of Wisconsin, Illinois, confident were going to be getting Minnesota and Michigan are ex-- . a lot of breakthroughs shortly." The Supreme Court of Minnesota pected to attend. Registration information is available from the did recently endorse admission of a Defense .Research Institute, 1100, spectograms, or voiceprints more than a decade West Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wis., process slightly e FBI Director Nominee Would Stop Agents Passing As Newsmen WASHINGTON Director-Designat- e (UPI)-F- BI Clarence M. Kelley said he will order FBI agents to stop masquerading as hews media representatives if he becomes director. Kelley said it puts newspapermen in a bad light because it makes them appear as law enforcers. There have been several incidents in recent years where undercover agents pretended to be reporters or photographers to gain access to demonstrations or meetings. Unless I had some very compelling reasons I would be against it. I think most of our information can be obtained without that type of cover, Kelley said. 53233. old. i |