Word: clapp
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...case, Gannett Co. vs. DePasquale, arose from a routine suppression-of-evidence hearing before a murder trial in upstate New York in 1976. Two men charged with murdering an ex-policeman named Wayne Clapp had come to court trying to block the prosecution from using confessions and a murder weapon, which they claimed had been illegally obtained by police. At the hearing, the defense lawyers asked Judge Daniel DePasquale to bar the public and the press from court. The lawyers argued that adverse publicity would jeopardize their clients' chance for a fair trial. The prosecutor made no objection...
...likelihood that some lower-court judges will take Rehnquist at his word and begin closing off courtrooms for no good reason. Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for himself and Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White, accused the court of overreacting to the risks of prejudicial publicity in the Clapp murder case. News articles about the case were "placid, routine and innocuous," wrote Blackmun. "There was no screaming headline, no lurid photograph, no front-page overemphasis." Nonetheless, the court "reached for a strict and flat result," he said, an "inflexible rule" that ignores or pays little heed to "the important...
Pole Vault--1. Hadsen (A) 14-9; 2. Clapp (A) 14-0; 3. Bailey...
Thursday, October 26: Caroline A. Wilson Lecture by Clyde Fergusson. Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...
There will be a talk by Lady Mander on William Morris and the Revolution in Victorian Taste on Monday, April 17 in the Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library at 8 p.m. All welcome...