THE 1980s: LAW AND JUSTICE: DEATHS

Emile Z. Berman, 78, trial lawyer who defended Sirhan Sirhan, who murdered Robert F. Kennedy, 3 July 1981.

William Anthony Boyle, 81, United Mine Workers president from 1963 to 1972 who was convicted in 1974 of ordering the murder of union rival Joseph A. Yablonski and members of his family, 31 May 1985.

Roy M. Cohn, 59, socialite lawyer who served as an aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during his Senate subcommittee investigations in the early 1950s into communist subversion, 2 August 1986.

Earl B. Dickerson, 95, lawyer and civil rights leader, 1 September 1986.

William O. Douglas, 80, longest-serving United States Supreme Court justice, 19 January 1980.

Clinton T. Duffy, 84, warden of San Quentin Prison from 1940 to 1952, 11 October 1982.

Sam J. Ervin Jr., 88, Democratic senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1975 who directed the Senate Watergate investigation, 23 April 1985.

Abe Fortas, 71, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969 who resigned in the wake of allegations about his association with financiers of questionable reputation, 5 April 1982.

Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., 77, federal judge whose nomination to the United States Supreme Court in 1969 was rejected by the Senate, 22 November 1989.

Julius J. Hoffman, 88, federal judge who presided over the trial of the Chicago Seven, the radicals who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, 1 July 1983.

Leon Jaworski, 77, special Watergate prosecutor who led the investigation that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, 9 December 1982.

Albert E. Jenner Jr., 72, lawyer who participated in the investigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination and in the Watergate investigation of Richard M. Nixon, 18 September 1988.

Clarence Mitchell, 72, lobbyist for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1950 to 1978, 18 March 1984.

John N. Mitchell, 75, United States attorney general in the Nixon administration who was the only man in this office ever to be convicted of a felony, 9 November 1988.

Clarence Norris, 76, last surviving of the Scottsboro Boys, who became symbols of civil rights violations in the South after they were, many said, falsely accused of rape in 1931, 23 January 1989.

Jackie Presser, 62, Teamsters union president, 9 July 1988.

Anthony Provenzano, 71, mafia leader, 12 December 1988.

James H. Rowe, 65, attorney and adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, 17 June 1984.

Willie Sutton, 79, notorious bank robber who stole some $2 million in his thirty-five-year career and spent thirty-three years in jail, 2 November 1980.