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...that such suspects have the right to have a lawyer present at lineups. The Senators also voided the court's holding that confessions may not be used if obtained during an unreasonable delay between arrest and arraignment. Such attacks on the court are not yet assured, however. The bill must now go to a Senate-House conference committee chaired by New York Representative Emanuel Celler, and Celler last week insisted that he would rather see the whole bill die than let the anti-court amendments survive...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, Duncan's lawyers argued that a jury trial is an integral part of "due process of law," which is guaranteed in the states by the 14th Amendment. The due-process clause has been frequently used to extend other parts of the federal Bill of Rights to the states, and a 7-to-2 majority of the court agreed that it also covers jury trials...
Dissenting, as he so often has from extensions of Bill of Rights guarantees, Justice John Harlan repeated his feeling that due process "requires only that criminal trials be fundamentally fair." Since it cannot "be demonstrated that trial by jury is the only fair means," Justice Harlan would have upheld the conviction. But fairness was not the pivotal factor to Justice Byron White, who wrote for the majority. To him, the jury trial is so "fundamental to the American scheme of justice" that every citizen is entitled to it in "serious" criminal cases, whether or not another trial method might also...
...Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap." A comic-strip hero called Super Square participates in such right-wing victories as the resignation of Defense Secretary McNamara and the downfall of Che Guevara. His identity, however, is a mystery. Square asks: "Is he Al Capp? Bill Buckley? Joey Bishop...
Even so, a frontal attempt to improve the lot of a large number of unskilled workers by subsidizing their income is bound to anger the middle class unless the legislation seeks, as does the bill proposed by Congressman Laird, to keep the gap between the poor and the middle class large enough to make the middle class feel secure. Most proposals so far do just that. The Poor Peoples' plan tacitly assumes that anyone with an able body should work for his income. So does the Laird Bill, which incorporaties most of Friedman's views on income subsidies...