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Article Excerpt
WHEN WARREN BURNETT, THE FAMOUS ODESSA TRIAL LAWYER, died in September at age 75, memories flooded back of people accused of crimes, jailed labor organizers, segregated students, and countless others crushed by the boots of big business and big government. But mostly I thought of myself. Warren, the son of a Virginia miner, was a lifelong champion of the poor and the oppressed, and in 1968 nobody was poorer or more oppressed than me, or so I believed at the time. Those were the days of the anti-war and civil rights movements, and anyone a wee bit off center faced the wrath of the establishment. I'd accidentally and innocently given a joint to a hairball who turned out to be a federal narcotics agent, and I could have been sent away for life.
Though I had never met Warren, he was recruited by a friend to help me and enthusiastically came to my rescue, bringing with him some of the finest legal talent in Texas-Malcolm McGregor, Sam Houston Clinton, and Babe Schwartz--and at no cost to me. Since I was a writer rather than, say, a chimney sweep, I considered this my due. I didn't want a mere acquittal; I wanted an apology. One morning, during pretrial preparation, I launched into a...
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