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2 Alaska L.J. 1 (1964)

handle is hein.barjournals/alaskalj0002 and id is 1 raw text is: LAW JANUARY, 1964 N.Y. JUDGES WILL STUDY ABOLITION OF CIVIL JURIES NEW YORK (ACCN)-The New York State Judicial Confer- erence, which has regulatory power over the Empire State's courts, has set up a special six-judge committee to study the desirability of abolishing civil jury trials in the state. Announmement of the com- mittee's creation was made by Chief Judge Charles Desmond of the New York Court of Ap- peals, the state's highest tri- bunal, during the annual dinner of the New York State Bar As- sociation here, January 31. By virtue of his position, the Chief Judge is also chairman of the Judicial Conference. The committee will be headed by State Supreme Court Justice LAW PRACTICE NEWS JOURNAL CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY The first year of publication of the Alaska Law Journal has brought us past the danger zone usually associated with all new legal periodicals. We've survived in the Northland and now look forward to improving the content and coverage. Local bars are urged to report their activities and requests for in- formation to other area bar groups through the Journal. BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETINGS Peter J. Kalamarides, execu- tive secretary of the Alaska Bar Association, has been made primarily responsible for the transmission to the Journal of information pertaining to the activities of the Board of Gov- ernors as well as of the Bar Association Committees. We can, no doubt, expect his re ports in a subsequent issue. ENTERING LAW PRACTICE Nissel A. Rose, D.C. and Alaska attorney, formerly dis- trict counsel for the U. S. Army Engineer District, Alaska has entered private law practice at the Anchorage law offices pre- viously occupied by William H. Sanders, recently appointed a Superior Court Judge. OBLIGATIONS SCROLLS N. C. Banfield, President of the Jun , Ba- Associatior, P. 0. Box 1121, Juneau, Alaska, has announced that members of the A 1 a s k a Bar Association wishing to purchase the Ameri- can Bar Association's four-color lithograph scrolls, A Lawyer's Obligations or A Judge's Ob- ligations write him directly so that a bulk order may be placed by the bar association entitling members to reduced prices. Lots of 25 or more may be purchased at savings up to 40% of the single copy price of $12.50 for the framed scrolls and S6.00 for the unframed scrolls. Owen McGivern of New York Committee under the chairman- City. The other five members ship of Sen. McNeil Mitchell of are drawn from courts of vari- Manhattan will cooperate with ous levels, other than the Court the Judicial Conference on the of Appeals, throughout the study. state. The Chief Judge emphasized Neither the committee nor that the study is not being con- the Judicial Conference has the ducted to support a precon- power to wipe out jury trials, ceived conclusion, but will be but a favorable committee rec- thoroughly impartial. The com- ommendation would give the mittee will go into the whole the movement considerable mo- matter of court calendar conges- mentum. Chief Judge Desmond tion, he said, and the issue of told the bar dinner meeting whether to abolish civil juries that the State Senate Judiciary is only one item on its agenda. IN THIS ISSUE- Attorney General Opinion No. 1, p. 10 Supreme Court Opinions Nos. 180-183 Nelson v. State (180), pp. 11- 12 Merrill v. Merrill (181), pp. 12-13 Walters v. Cease, et al (182), pp. 13-15 Ahlstrom v. Cummings, et al (183). p. 15 Vol. 2 DISPARITY IN SENTENCING HIT BY CHICAGO JUDGE CHICAGO, ILL. (ACCN) - Wide disparity in the sentences handed out by different judges for the same offense in juris- dictions throughout the country were criticized by U.S. District Judge James B. Parsons in an article, The Personal Factor in Sentencing, in the winter issue of the DePaul University Law Rcviev. dJdge Parsons' federa' trial court has jurisdiction over Chicago and northern parts of Illinois. While pointing out some of the absurdities of the present sentencing system, Judge Par- sons emphasized that alterna- tive systems or modifications which would divest judges of some or all of the sentencing power have their own distinc- tive defects. In his belief, the judge-system of sentencing is still preferable to any other, and its peculiar defects will be eased in the course of time. In California, he noted, un- der an indetermine sentencing system, all offenders are com- mitted to the State Adult Auth- ority, which then decides both the time to be served and the prison in which it shall be spent. In Oregon, the judge de- termines the maximum sentence under the applicable law and the offender becomes eligible for parole immediately, with the time actually to be served determined by a parole board. These programs are both de- fective, Judge Parsons declared, because only through the ju- diciary itself can there be es- (Continued on Page 16) No. I m . .. ,. uJ Ji • !i • • w roll|

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