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The President also took note of objections to the fact that Title II seeks to overturn several Supreme Court decisions on the legal rights of people accused of federal offenses. While the court held in the Miranda case that a defendant must be warned of his rights before evidence is...
A Eugene O'Neill play is somewhat like a confession without hope of absolution. The sense of sin lies too deep to be expiated. Past guilts abort present action and remorse is denied relief. The characters reach out to one another for affection and frustratingly embrace only the perturbed...
Things get a little ridiculous with a raid on a trailer truck, in which a score of pretty boys and a silver-haired gent in a Homburg seem to be having a pitch-dark love-in. But the movie picks up again with a moving, gut-tightening scene in which...
Dean Kessler pointed out that "the most effective evidence we have (against a student) is confession." Generally, he added, there wouldn't be enough evidence for a court case without self-incrimination.
Skeptical Talk. The legal implications are important, said Spiegel. To begin with, the statements of a person under hypnosis are clearly not guaranteed truth, despite his obvious belief in what he is saying. Dr. Spiegel suggested further that prosecution witnesses or defendants are perfectly capable of telling a self-damaging...