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BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A young law student has the know-how to take his murder conviction to the Supreme Court on the grounds that his confession of guilt was coerced from him. With Bobby Darin and Janet Leigh. Color.
That note of despair is the fundamental emotion of the existentialism Sartre was to develop, where God is banished, man is totally responsible for what he does with himself and society, and therefore gets on earth the hell he deserves. Thus man is absurd, but he must grimly act as...
The defendant knows this. As a result, his first and last words in court are almost always a confession of guilt and a plea for mercy. After he has been formally charged, a defendant may hire a lawyer, and many do, though the courts generally look down on defense counsel...
A Chilling Story. For the better part of two days, Special State Prosecutor Jeff Wayne and Defense Attorney Jim Hudson argued about the admissibility of an eight-page, handwritten confession given to the FBI, and later repudiated, by Lackey. Finally, white-haired Judge William Carey Skelton ruled: "I'll...
Lackey had told how the three white men returned to an Athens garage operated by Herbert Guest, 37. Guest had been arrested with the others but a Madison County grand jury failed to return a murder indictment against him. Continued Lackey's confession: "The double-barreled shotgun used by...