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More than 75% of U.S. law school graduates are unready for practice, says Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. They leave school without having confronted "one live man or woman who is immediately in need of legal advice." Most of them know too little about criminal law, to say nothing of trying a case. Yet every indigent U.S. felony defendant is now entitled to free counsel; the Government aims to furnish free legal advice in slums, and the whole country needs able young trial lawyers...
Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan said yesterday that the matter is under extensive investigation by his department. "That's all it would be wise for me to say at this time," Brennan added...
City councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said Monday that he would "demand to know exactly what's going on" at his next meeting with Brennan...
President Pusey and Whitlock discussed the DeGuglielmo request yesterday. They decided to talk with Boston officials, Whitlock said, and then speak with DeGuglielmo and Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan to try to work out a mutually acceptable solution...
Emphatic Rejection. Black's theory appalled his longtime libertarian colleague, Justice William O. Douglas, who spoke for three other dissenters (Warren, Brennan, Fortas) in blasting the court for inviting the use of trespass laws as "a blunderbuss to suppress civil rights." Not only was trespass being wrongfully applied to public property, argued Douglas, but custodians of such property were being given "awesome power to decide whose ideas may be expressed." Douglas called the decision "a wonderful police-state doctrine" that will "only increase the forces of frustration which the conditions of secondclass citizenship are generating amongst...