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To "make a dollar," Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while walking to a Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year...
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Vermont, Connecticut) rejected Cone's claim that his confession was inadmissible under Escobedo because he was not warned of his rights although the arresting customs agents had reached the accusatory stage-in short, the time when...
Circuit v. Circuit. With those words, the judge unmistakably chose sides in the hottest debate in U.S. criminal law today. To alarmed police and prosecutors, Escobedo is a bar to using any confession in court-a practice that former New York Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, for example, called "essential...
Stephen Morris, as Glas, had less faults and less exciting moments. His great confession never went beyond a forte; but since he had kept to a pianissimo throughout the rest of the play, the contrast was still impressive. And he returned nicely to a low-keyed intensity for his most...
There comes a season when a church man must take inventory of his life and thought, keeping what still seems valid to him and casting the chaff to the wind. For Reinhold Niebuhr, 73, the inventory spans half a century of ministry, including 32 years as a professor of Christian...