Law — Examinations, questions, etc. – Pacifica Radio Archives

What is a war crime? / Telford Taylor ad Richard Falk.

Discussion of international laws covering war crimes, and how the Nuremburg trials serve as a precedent.

August 24, 2025

How to do your own divorce / Charles E. Sherman ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

Attorney Charles E. Sherman, better known as Ed Sherman, author of the book “How to do your own divorce in California” (Occidental, CA: Nolo Press, 1972), talks to Elsa Knight Thompson. Sherman advises not representing yourself in a divorce case, and discusses legal fees, divorce rates, and religious versus legal interpretations of divorce law. Also…

August 24, 2025

The Lawyer’s role in the American ghetto society / Norman Dorson.

Talk on the reality of the American ghetto, and the lawyer’s responsibility to help solve such inequality through donations of corporate time.

August 24, 2025

Censorship and obscenity / moderated by Lawrence Goldberg.

Eugene Boyle and Coleman Blease discuss the legal definitions and conflicts with free speech present in obscentiy evaluations.|CENSORSHIP AND OBSCENITY / moderated by Lawrence Goldberg. – Eugene Boyle and Coleman Blease discuss the legal definitions and conflicts with free speech present in obscenity evaluations. – RECORDED: 22 Jan. 1961. BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 Mar. 1961.

August 24, 2025

Should diminished capacity be accepted as a defense in courts of law? / Charles Garry and Lee Coleman.

On the Dan White defense.|SHOULD DIMINSHED CAPACITY BE ACCEPTED AS A DEFENSE IN COURTS OF LAW? / Charles Garry and Lee Coleman. – SERIES: War of the words. – Dr. Coleman speaks against diminished capacity because he feels that psychiatrists cannot determine a person’s sanity| therefore, it is invalid for use in testimony in courts…

August 24, 2025