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...Kleinfelder has stated herself, tomorrow's confrontation with Yale is "a crucial game for the team." The freshmen will run the warmups, but most of them will then quietly take their place on the bench, waiting for Coach's call...
...provoked a sharp dissent from Justice Byron R. White, who ordinarily sides with the Chief Justice on cases involving criminal procedure. Speaking for himself and Justices Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens, White took the unusual step of reading aloud his own strongly worded opinion from the bench. Confessions are different from other kinds of evidence, White reasoned. Their impact upon a juror's thinking is too powerful...
...home is his castle, even if home is a park bench or a cardboard box under a highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb...
...rulings on civil-liberties issues eight times during his short judicial tenure. In Ryskamp's defense, Justice Department officials note that his civil rights record mirrors that of other federal judges. But that is largely a reflection of the fact that liberals are an "endangered species" on the federal bench, as Sheldon Goldman, a University of Massachusetts expert on the judiciary, puts...
Bush has already won confirmation of 71 judicial appointments. Aided by a 1990 law that created 85 new seats on the federal bench, the President will be able to appoint about 200 jurists during his four-year term. That is expected to accelerate the shrinkage in the percentage of Democrats on the federal bench to about 25%. The Republican majority may include Ryskamp. Despite the opposition, many Senate insiders expect his nomination to pass muster this time around...