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...equally possible that the most profound insights into the nature of man and the meaning of life may appear in the work of an atheist rather than a committed theologian. "We know," says Canon Lloyd with dry realism, "that God could do without the Church of England...
...house is in need of cleaning," says James R. Thompson, assistant state's attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Laws prohibiting prejudicial pre-trial talk by court and law-enforcement officials are already on the books in 30 states, and these statutes reflect a 50-year-old canon of the American Bar Association. But the A.B.A. has never invoked its canon...
...Jersey Supreme Court felt it had power to impose its ban on lawyers as "officers of the court" under the bar's canons of ethics. As the court read it, Canon 20 covers prosecution chatter "as to alleged confessions or inculpatory admissions by the accused, or to the effect that the case is 'open and shut' against the defendant, and the like, or with reference to the defendant's prior criminal record." As for defense counsel, "the right of the state to a fair trial cannot be impeded or diluted by out-of-court assertions...
Last Thursday the Massachusetts Freedom Movement and Boston CORE issued a press release detailing Volpe's civil rights program. Canon James Breeden, co-chairman of the Mass. Freedom Movement, and Alan Gartner, chairman of Boston CORE, hailed the statement as "the most advanced civil rights program ever issued by a gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts History...
...NAACP leader was in a position to be tough with Bellotti. He knew that the next morning--yesterday--at Negro churches across the Commonwealth--worshippers would find 60,000 pamphlets with Canon Breeden on the cover and his endorsement of Volpe inside...