Manual for Courts-martial

Front Cover
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 1-19 - The office of attorney does not permit, much less does it demand of him for any client, violation of law or any manner of fraud or chicane. He must obey his own conscience and not that of his client.
Page 1-19 - In the judicial forum the client is entitled to the benefit of any and every remedy and defense that is authorized by the law of the land, and he may expect his lawyer to assert every such remedy or defense. But it is...
Page 1-18 - It is the right of the lawyer to undertake the defense of a person accused of crime, regardless of his personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense.
Page 1-7 - Witnesses who attend at points so far removed from their respective residences as to prohibit return thereto from day to day shall be entitled to an additional allowance of $12 per day for expenses of subsistence, including the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the place of attendance.
Page 1-18 - Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound, by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits, to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law. The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice is done.
Page 1-19 - A lawyer may properly interview any witness or prospective witness for the opposing side in any civil or criminal action without the consent of opposing counsel or party.
Page 1-5 - Government and who are not in custody and who attend at points so far removed from their respective residences as to prohibit return thereto from day to day shall be entitled to an additional allowance of $5 per day for expenses of subsistence...
Page 3-21 - No person subject to this chapter may compel any person to incriminate himself or to answer any question the answer to which may tend to incriminate him.
Page 5-10 - Whenever complaint is made to any commanding officer that damage has been done to the property of any person or that his property has been wrongfully taken...
Page 3-22 - No person in the armed forces shall be required to sign a statement of any nature relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of any disease or injury he may have, and any such statement against his own interest signed at any time, shall be null and void and of no force and effect. CHAPTER II AID BY VETERANS' ORGANIZATIONS SEC. 200. (a) That upon certification to the Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy by the Administrator of Veterans...

Bibliographic information