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...Bench warrants were issued at this time by the Superior Court for the arrest of four other Panthers-Landon Williams, Rory Hithe, Lonnie McLucas, and George Sams. Hithe and Williams were arrested in Denver on June 5, McLucas a few weeks later in Salt Lake City. Although McLucas waived extradition and was brought to New Haven immediately, Hithe and Williams are still in Denver fighting attempts to extradite them to New Haven to stand trial...
...little likelihood that Blackmun will be criticized for his judicial philosophy or specific decisions. Liberals may wish that he had shown more willingness to break new judicial ground; he has tended to shy away from interpretations of law not already sanctioned by the Supreme Court. On the highest bench, there can be no passing the buck, and most observers expect Blackmun to prove a highly independent justice. The court has yet to pass upon one of his most significant decisions: his refusal in 1968 to overrule the death sentence of an Arkansas black convicted of raping a white woman...
...than a month. Although the technical expertise he gained as a New Deal chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has been indispensable to a host of antitrust decisions, his legal craftsmanship can be careless. He writes articles for Playboy and other magazines, and is an outspoken off-the-bench activist on issues ranging from U.S. recognition of Red China to the ecological misdeeds of the Army Corps of Engineers. Such advocacy piques those who feel that Supreme Court Justices should be more magisterial and aloof from politics and public debate; there is the real danger that in discussing...
...Bobby Seale and 13 other Panthers. They are charged with the torture slaying of another Panther. When Hilliard tried to talk to one of the defendants in the tense courtroom, officers moved in to quiet him. Douglas attempted to intervene, and the pair were grabbed and wrestled to the bench by state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey promptly sentenced them to six months in jail for contempt of court...
Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...