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A Kindly Pastor. Among so many cardinals, at least one was sure to be an American, but the Pope's choice was close to being a surprise: shy, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Lawrence Joseph Shehan, 66, who has been Archbishop of Baltimore since 1961. He becomes the sixth...
"Shakeing All Over." Whitmore was hustled to the station house and grilled for 26 hours. Next day, the city's top police brass triumphantly displayed the youth before TV news cameras as the confessed perpetrator of three crimes -the attempted rape, the unsolved killing of a Brooklyn charwoman, and...
Out of respect for the sacred name, some devout Jews never pronounce the Hebrew word for God. Rabbi Sherman Wine, 36, of Birmingham Temple in the Detroit suburbs, has another reason for not mentioning the deity: he cannot prove that God exists. To the consternation and dismay of his fellow...
But how shall the courts determine voluntariness? In Jackson's case, New York saw its procedure as eminently fair-let the jury decide. Jackson nonetheless appealed to the Supreme Court, which last June handed down a landmark decision (Jackson v. Denno) voiding the New York procedure as unconstitutional. "The...
Cons' Windfall. The court ruled that Jackson was entitled to a new evidentiary hearing solely to determine the voluntariness of his confession. (He is getting a new trial next month.) Out went New York-style procedure in 15 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and six of the...