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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...
Before these depositions came out, Lowe denied to the press that he had ever done business with Sparger. He also signed an affidavit, say Nielsen spokesmen, indicating that he had no connection with any rigging. To debate the contradictory evidence, lawyers for Nielsen, Sparger and Lowe met in Chicago over...
Clearing up semantic problems played a big part in the evening's talk. Mary Lamar expressed a dislike for her church's customary references to others as "non-Catholics" ("I don't think that I'd like being described as non-Protestant"). For her part, she...
In the now famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a...
If it seemed late in the day for the Supreme Court to feel the urge to reaffirm those rights, the court itself was at least partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a...