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...DETECTIVE NOVEL which rises above the mundane to ensnare the attention of its reader and then holds a fascination through to the last, excruciatingly tense moment of resolution is an infrequent interloper among today's backlog of drugstore thrillers. But in Report to the Commissioner, James Mills has created just such an interloper: a story of deep suspense which moves on several planes of confrontation, ambition and human interaction. Slickly written, carefully strung together, Report to the Commissioner skirts the obvious and pivots on the unexpected; in the best tradition of detective stories, it leads the reader warily around blind...
...court continues cleaning up its backlog of 71 cases, including such major issues as capital punishment and wiretapping, it will presumably continue on the course set last week. And in supporting the shift in favor of prosecutors, the Nixon court has served notice that despite conservatives' arguments that judges should confine themselves to "strict construction" of existing law, the new majority will feel as free as the Warren court did to re-interpret the law as it sees fit. Justice Douglas pointed out that irony in one of his dissents last week, when he said that the new majority...
...found to be completely within the limits of the law. Fines of $1,444,686 have been proposed, and one firm, Greenfield & Associates of Lavonia, Mich., was fined a total of $16,000. These fines can be contested before a three-man commission; it already has a five-month backlog of 842 cases...
...speedy and public trial," but in many states the courts keep falling behind. In New York City, for example, felony defendants get indicted at a rate of 25,000 a year, while the disposition of such cases runs to only 20,000. As of last January, there was a backlog of 10,000 cases, and one quarter of those kept in jail wait more than six months before their cases are disposed...
...York City, a series of administrative reforms managed to clean up the misdemeanor cases, but as Judge Fuld's deadline neared, the felony backlog remained as high as ever. The state's alarmed district attorneys went to the legislature with a bill that would require prosecutors only to have their cases ready within six months-not to get the cases to trial in the crowded courts. The alternative, they warned, might be armies of felons being turned loose...