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...confess before God and the world," the report said, "that we have been guilty of the sin of conformity to the world, that we have often followed the vain traditions of men instead of the mind of Christ, and that our silence and fear have all too frequently made us stumbling blocks instead of stepping-stones in the area of race relations. In a spirit of true repentance, we prayerfully rededicate ourselves to the Christian ministry of reconciliation between Negroes and whites...
...Confessions of the Innocent Sir: An untrue inference is contained in TIME'S [April 2] statement, "The fact that mdigents (60% of all criminal defendants) frequently confess out of fear, even though innocent, is among the chief reasons for the court decisions on the right to counsel and the inadmissibility of nonvoluntary confessions." It is a rare occurrence when an innocent person confesses to a crime that he did not commit, and because of the layers of niters built into our system, the production in court of such a false confession would be a rarity among rarities...
...Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) decided that the right to have counsel present begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. The court ruled that Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo had been forced to confess to a murder without legal aid. After Danny had spent 41 years in jail, Illinois dropped the charges...
...Rideau v. Louisiana (1963) reversed Bank Robber Wilbert Rideau's murder conviction because a Louisiana sheriff had Rideau "confess" on television before thousands of potential jurors. Rideau was reconvicted and now faces another death sentence...
...polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when I see these corn-fed kids belting that opera like pros." U.C.L.A. writing students will never forget hearing Novelist Isherwood confess that there were pages in one of his novels "that even I can no longer decipher...