Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and ethnic changes, died Friday. He was 83. …
NEW ORLEANS — Revius Ortique Jr., the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, [died Sunday] of complications from a stroke. He was 84. …
As a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s and ’60s, he helped integrate state labor unions and sued to get equal pay for black workers.
He held several presidential appointments, including a stint as an alternate delegate to the United Nations under President Clinton. …
Former state judge Stewart Hanson Jr., 69, died March 30, 2008.
Mr. Hanson was perhaps best known for presiding over the 1976 Utah aggravated kidnapping trial of Ted Bundy and sentencing Bundy to up to 15 years in prison. Serial killer Bundy later was extradited to Colorado, where he escaped from jail, went on a crime spree and was eventually executed for murder in Florida.
Mr. Hanson was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1992. … Read full obituary
SALISBURY, Conn. (AP) — Catherine Roraback, a pioneering attorney who was among the founders of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, died this week at a local retirement home, according to family members. She was 87. … Read full obituary
Samuel A. Garrison III, a congressional lawyer who argued against the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon, has died in Virginia at age 65. …
Garrison later announced he was gay and became active in gay rights issues, the Times reported. … Read full obituary
Prominent Melbourne lawyer Peter Hayes, QC, has died in an Adelaide hospital, 11 days after being found unconscious in an Adelaide hotel room.
The high flying QC, who represented Steve Vizard’s former bookkeeper Roy Hilliard, had been in a coma in the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s intensive care unit after being found unconscious in a hotel on May 11. … Read full obituary
After his son was killed by a mobster in 1975, Charles F. Marsland Jr. turned the murder into inspiration to fight organized crime.
As Honolulu’s first elected prosecuting attorney, he relentlessly battled mobsters and killers, significantly reducing the island’s crime rates, his friends and fellow prosecutors said. … Read full obituary
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Senior District Judge Herbert J. Hutton, who spent nearly 20 years on the federal bench and presided over a 2001 mob racketeering trial, died Sunday. He was 69. … Read full obituary
BOSTON (AP) — Martha B. Sosman, one of three Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judges who voted against the landmark decision legalizing gay marriage in the state, has died, the court said Sunday. She was 56. …Read full obituary
NEW YORK — Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in the nation’s civil rights struggle, has died. She was 84. … Read full obituary
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