Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riverside Neighborhood Association met with Mayor Edward A. Crane, City Manager John J. Curry, and Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan, David N. Bailey, president of the Association, stressed that the most important function of such a committee would be to serve as a liaison between the police and the citizens of Cambridge...
...last month's Kansas case, the court did not feel it even had to decide whether the seized books were actually obscene. Speaking for the court, Justice Brennan merely declared: "If seizure of books precedes an adversary determination of their obscenity, there is danger of abridgment of the right of the public in a free society to unobstructed circulation of nonobscene books...
Precisely because the court has shorn obscenity of constitutional protection, it feels duty-bound to deal individually with all such cases that reach it. And however objective it tries to be, the court is mired in what Justice Brennan calls "a difficult, recurring and unpleasant task"-setting a national moral criterion for a people of widely diverse standards...
...wrote 20 dissenting opinions, twice as many as any other Justice. The year before, he wrote 22 dissents. Sometimes Harlan is supported in them by Justices White, Clark and Stewart, but he is regularly beaten by the five so-called "activists": Chief Justice War ren and Justices Douglas, Black, Brennan and Goldberg...
...American system of criminal prosecution," wrote Justice William Brennan, "is accusatorial, not inquisitorial, and the Fifth Amendment is its essential mainstay." With those words, Brennan last week announced the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the contempt conviction of a small-time Connecticut 52-year-old gambler named William Malloy and extend the protection of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination to witnesses and defendants, whatever their status, in all state courts...