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Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher's apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent conversations, the priest urged the murderer to turn him self in and refused him absolution...
...Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...
Finger of Suspicion. Criswell was in for another surprise. Because he had not suspected Bruce, he had not warned him of his rights to silence and counsel under the U.S. Supreme Court's Miranda decision. As a result, after one day of a nonjury trial last week, Judge Merle Lansden...
Though Bruce cannot be tried again on the murder charge, Criswell said he would appeal the ruling in order to challenge the judge's interpretation of the juvenile's rights. "It's the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen," said the angry prosecutor. "The boy hadn't even...
Crazy Sketches. By his own confession, Gernreich was never a great dancer. But being with the company gave him the chance to design costumes, the first real clothes that he had ever created. He also picked up a job designing fabrics. To dramatize them, he had them photographed draped around...