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...they would gas me." The Supreme Court ruled that Alford's plea was just as persuasive as his protest. "Confronted with the choice between a trial for first-degree murder, on the one hand, and a plea of guilty to second-degree murder, on the other," said Justice Byron White for the court majority, "Alford quite reasonably chose the latter and thereby limited the maximum penalty to a 30-year term." In a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that a guilty plea is voluntary and valid-at least when there is strong evidence of guilt-even though...
...thin red line of empire is being besieged on two sides by the Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass who scorns the bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin v. tired stag disappointment. Neither the audience nor Father Collins can mistake the meaning of her persistent frustrated sighs...
...majority consisted of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Associate Justices Hugo L. Black, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron R. White, Thur-good Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun. Justices Potter Stewart and John M. Harlan dissented on different grounds...
Common Sense. Speaking for the court, Justice Byron White noted that the Sixth Amendment does not specify twelve jurors. Generations of jurists-including the Supreme Court in decisions going back as far as the 19th century -logically assumed that, since the founders drew the constitutional requirement of jury trial from British common law, they also intended to preserve the common law's tradition of twelve. But that tradition is a mere "historical accident." White wrote. Since the days of the Franks and Normans, juries have ranged in number from 66 to four, and legal thinkers have seldom found much...
...widespreaod use of the "behavior modification" drugs is due mostly to the efforts of Dr. Byron B. Oberst, an Omaha pediatrician whose personal enthusiasm for the drugs led him to form a parent-teacher group called Skills, Technique, Academic Achievement and Remediation (STAAR) with the object of pushing their...