Word: burger
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...otherwise. Because MacDonald's appeals have caused most of the delay since 1975, the key period for the court was the more than four-year stretch between the Army's dismissal of charges and the grand jury's action. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger held that no "right to a speedy trial arises until charges are pending." When the first charges were dropped, the clock, in effect, stopped ticking. During the interim, said Burger, MacDonald suffered no loss of liberty: "He was free to go about his affairs, to practice his profession...
...Calif, apartment and returned him to Terminal Island federal prison, where he had served a year of his sentence following conviction. After his 1980 appeals court victory, MacDonald was freed on $100,000 bond and has been working in a hospital in Long Beach. Even at this late date, Burger noted that other avenues of appeal remain open to the doctor, particularly under the Fifth Amendment due process clause. His lawyers-along with numerous friends and supporters-are now preparing to pursue them...
...debates tend to sound like audi tions for a road company of 7776. Arguments are nearly always flotsam-packed and comically eclectic, skittering from Burger King to Rousseau, from Bruce Springsteen to the Sudetenland. Says Gilbert: "You can't really prepare, so everything becomes important: something your mother once said, a tidbit from sociology class...
...Burger Court in recent years has retrenched somewhat on the gains made by its predecessor, the activist and rights-conscious tribunal of Earl Warren. Right-wingers have assailed the Court for not scrapping even more of that Court's "Liberal solutions. "But doubts about specific Court decisions are no excuse for limiting its authority as the branch most committed to defending civil rights. If the Reagan Administration continues its attempts to roll back the social legislation of the sixties, we may need a truly activist Court--one committed to defending civil rights and equipped to do so--more than ever...
...Such a program is designed, for example, to uncover any unusually large or frequent transfers of money. A leading producer of these audit programs is Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass. Its sales grew 66% last year to $29 million, and customers include the Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Burger King and the American Bible Society. Computer audit programs are selling so swiftly that the leading accounting firms are moving into the business. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., for instance, now markets its own program, called System 2190. FBI experts like Agent Paul Nolan, however, contend that so far such programs...