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...suppose to exist in given circumstances." The ranger invaded that privacy, said Judge Browning, by cutting peepholes that "constituted actual intrusion," and the resulting surveillance without a warrant created what the Fourth Amendment condemns-"a general exploratory search conducted solely to find guilt." Not moved, Judge Browning's brethren refused to extend the right of privacy to a public toilet. There was no actual intrusion, said the court. "All appellants complain of is that they were seen...
...were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter. And while they could quarrel with his grisly form of martyrdom, there was no disputing that the vast majority of Friends shared Morrison's misgiving about the Viet Nam war, or any other war. Along with the Brethren movement and the Mennonites, the Friends have been the most ardent spokesmen for the pacifist movement within Christianity, calling upon men to accept literally God's commandment: "Thou shalt not kill...
...Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
...that priority in church goals should go to resolving internal problems. Bishop Paul Martin of Houston, for example, argues that Methodism has its hands full attempting to integrate the Negro Central Jurisdiction into previously all-white church structures and carrying out a scheduled 1968 merger with the Evangelical United Brethren, a Methodist-like body of German origin. At the Lake Junaluska Conference, Indianapolis Bishop Richard Raines suggested that the church's first need was reorganizing and strengthening its relations with other Methodist bodies around the world...
Exploratory Evidence. In sharp dissent, Judge Reuben Oppenheimer insisted that the defense was entitled to the benefit of that speculation. His brethren wrongly "put themselves in the place of the triers of fact," he said, and ignored the rule that extra care for due process is required in capital cases. When life is at stake, declared Judge Oppenheimer, citing several Supreme Court decisions to bolster his argument, elementary fairness demands full disclosure and cross-examination so that the jury itself may decide whether evidence is exculpatory. Though it failed to carry his court, Judge Oppenheimer's dissent may prove...