Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pioneered by two California Supreme Court decisions in 1956 and 1961, the "open file" concept of criminal trials received considerable impetus in 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brady v. Maryland that before any verdict, the prosecutor is constitutionally compelled to disclose all information "favorable" to the defendant...
One major surprise was the fact that confessions proved essential to successful prosecution "in only a small percent age of criminal cases," largely because many defendants were either caught red-handed in the act or observed by witnesses to the crime. Further, of 790 defendants who were informed of their...
What the papers decided on was precisely what the bar has been urging. Until a case comes to trial, the papers pledge to print only the name, age and address of the accused, plus a description of the arrest and the charge, and the identity of the complainant. The papers...
Died. Fred W. Slater, 67, Chicago Circuit-Court judge, a 1921 University of Iowa star tackle and five-year pro for the Chicago Cardinals, who became one of the first Negroes elected a judge in Chicago, in 1960 presided over the murder trial of Danny Escobedo, ruling against a motion...
Unanswered Questions. Though Miranda's specification of police procedure was unusually precise for a Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way...