William P. Homans Jr.: A Life in Court - Paperbackby Mark S. Brodin (Author) Boston lawyer William P. Homans Jr. devoted his fifty year career to the defense of the poor and downtrodden, the protection of our most basic civil liberties, and the abolition of the death penalty. Descendant of two of Boston's oldest and most prominent families, and combat veteran of both the British and American Navies during World War II, Homans became unlikely guru to the 1960s generation of radical lawyers and antiwar