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Had the confession clearly been coerced, the trial judge would have ruled it inadmissible. But the facts were in dispute. Consistent with New York practice, the judge submitted the issue to the jury along with the question of Jackson's guilt or innocence. If you find the confession involuntary...
True Yet Tainted. But what had the jury decided about the confession? The verdict did not say. And even if the jurors had concluded that the confession was coerced, did they then disregard it? To Jackson's lawyers, the unanswered questions suggested a solid case of violated due process...
Is he an ambassador? Is he a Cabinet member? Though the title has an august ring, a U.S. commissioner is not nearly so easy to define. In Mississippi, for example, a suddenly famous U.S. commissioner has turned out to be a middle-aged spinster totally devoid of legal training, but...
Investigation teams were beefed up, and President Johnson announced that "substantial results can be expected in a very short time." Public pressure, from civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens alike, also mounted, while various circumstantial stories of how the crime had been committed got into print. The Department of Justice...
Owen wasted no time introducing a bit of ice-cold evidence. His first witness was Henry Rask. 39, an FBI special agent from Atlanta. Rask said that during three days in November he had quizzed one of the accused, Horace Doyle Barnette, 25, a meat-truck driver who now lives...