Legal Services By Casner Net Student Doubled Fine

The long arm of the law proved too long for Law Professor James A. Casner when he appeared at the Newton Court House to defend a graduate student arraigned for driving offenses.

Although they had planned to spend the evening of Friday, March 13, at a Wellesley dance, law student Burton K. Adelman and friend found themselves in the Newton jail house.

In response to their frantic appeals, Professor Casner good-naturedly agreed to appear in their defense. But even the best legal obscurantism and phraseological browbeating had no effect on the hard-headed magistrate of Newton. With a "Hey, you, enough of that!" from the Sergeant-at-Arms, Professor Casner was forced to let the law take its course. Adelman and co-defendant were fined twice the usual amount.