Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A young law student has the know-how to take his murder conviction to the Supreme Court on the grounds that his confession of guilt was coerced from him. With Bobby Darin and Janet Leigh. Color.
The defendant knows this. As a result, his first and last words in court are almost always a confession of guilt and a plea for mercy. After he has been formally charged, a defendant may hire a lawyer, and many do, though the courts generally look down on defense counsel...
A Chilling Story. For the better part of two days, Special State Prosecutor Jeff Wayne and Defense Attorney Jim Hudson argued about the admissibility of an eight-page, handwritten confession given to the FBI, and later repudiated, by Lackey. Finally, white-haired Judge William Carey Skelton ruled: "I'll...
Lackey had told how the three white men returned to an Athens garage operated by Herbert Guest, 37. Guest had been arrested with the others but a Madison County grand jury failed to return a murder indictment against him. Continued Lackey's confession: "The double-barreled shotgun used by...
The nation's 244 prelates can summon the services of 57,000 priests and 180,000 sisters. Although the church suffers more dropouts than it likes to admit (largely among Italians and Latin Americans, and among Catholics who marry outside the faith), and the number of converts is declining...