Word: aba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Society of Newspaper Editors wanted the ABA's House of Delegates to postpone decisions so that the media could study how jurors are influenced by publicity. But the ABA rightly decided that their committees three-year study justified immediate action. The committee injury documented a problem even media representatives acknowledge is critical: far too often, defendants, are convicted on the basis of what jurors read in newspapers or hear on T.V. instead of what happens in court. Some of this information is never intended for jurors-such as pre-trial hearings on the admissibly of evidence-and none...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...
...dangers are real, but not overwhelming. The ABA proposal narrowly limits punishable violations to leaks that are, "willfully designed...to affect the outcome of the trial, and that seriously threatens to have such an effect." Contempt rulings would have to be backed by juries, and according to Committee members, penalties would be reprimands and fines, not prison terms, for editors and publishers. The threatened interference with the first amendment seems mild compared with the toll now taken by violations of the sixth...
...media have noisily pointed out, they are by no means the only-or the primary-culprits in leaking extra-judicial information. The police, prosecutors, and lawyers-as sources of press information-actually deserve the largest part of the blame. The ABA readily acknowledges this and the committee's recommendations aim primarily at these groups. If local bars adopt the ABA guidelines (as now seems likely) they can expel lawyers who violate them. And the ABA also recommended that police and courts punish law enforcement or judicial officers who violate ABA's proposed restrictions...
...government, headed by Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, has moved its headquarters south to the dreary provincial town of Aba. Ojukwu's agents in Lisbon have bought millions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition, which reach the rebels at night via the Portuguese island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. Biafran students recently organized noisy pro-secessionist demonstrations at the United Nations in New York and in downtown London. Biafra's lone television station continued to end its program day each evening with a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome...