SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AMONG ABA SPEAKERS

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1979
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By FRANK CLIFFORD
Staff Writer
United States Supreme Court Jus-
tices Harry A. Blackmun, John Paul
Stevens and Lewis F. Powell Jr. are
among a score of prominent govern-
ment'officials scheduled to speak dur-
ing. the coming week at the American
Bar Association's 1979 convention.
Beginning today and running
through Aug. 15, the convention is
expected to draw 8,000 lawyers, many
of whom will participate in discus-
sions -on issues ranging from the death
penalty to treaties with Indian tribes
to cameras in the courtroom.
In addition to the three Supreme
Court justices, convention programs
will feature Robert Strauss, the for-
mer Dallas lawyer and national
Democratic Party chairman who is
now serving as a roving ambassador
to the Middle East; Benjamin Civi-
letti, recently confirmed U. S. Attor-
ney General; FBI Director William H.
Webster; White House inflation advi-
sor Alfred Kahn; CIA Director Stan-
field Turner; Sara Weddington, spe-
cial assistant to President Carter; and
former Watergate special prosecutor
Leon Jaworski.
Several regionally prominent law-
yers and judicial officials also-are to
be among the convention's speakers.
They include Houston trial lawyer
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, U. S.
Dist. Judge Patrick Higginbotham of
Dallas and U. S. Dist. Judge Eldon
Mahon of Fort Worth.
One of the scheduled highlights of
the convention is a program on the
effects of allowing television cameras
in courtrooms, a practice now permit-
ted in nine states not including Texas.
Two courtrooms in the Dallas
County Courthouse are to be used
Sunday to stage a mock Supreme
Court hearing and a mock criminal
trial, both with cameras present. The
judge in the mock criminal trial is to
be Judge Higginbotham.
Television monitors will transmit
the criminal trial proceedings to an
audience gathered in an adjacent
courtroom. Members of that audience
will be allowed to move back and
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forth between the spectators' room
and the room where the mock trial is
taking place. The setup is designed to
givethe audience a chance to compare
observations of a live trial with the
experience of viewing one on a televi-
sion screen.
During the eight-day convention,
the ABA's House of Delegates is ex-
pected to vote on several` proposals re-
garding controversial legal issues.
Any proposal approved by the dele-
gates becomes official ABA policy and
frequently becomes the focal point of
lobbying efforts in Congress.
The proposals to be faced by the
House of Delegates this week include:
V Support for a bill now in Con-
gress that would create "rational cri-
teria for the imposition of the sen-
tence of death"
/ A request for the federal gov-
ernment to "follow a policy of strict
adherence. 'to Indian treaty obliga-
tions"
Backing of a bill now before
Congress that would prohibit police
from making what are termed "third-
party" searches of people not suspect-
ed of crimes. The pending bill came in
response to a Supreme Court decision
that allowed police to search the files
of a newspaper for information about
criminal suspects.
V Support for a bill pending in
Congress that would make computer
fraud a federal offense. It is now only
a state crime.
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