Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, arrest and detention are the most crucial phases of his entire case. In the intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the...
Despite the furor over Mallory, the Supreme Court last year tackled the interrogation problem at the state level with the now-famous decision in Escobedo v. Illinois. In its most controversial action yet, the court voided Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder confession because it was made after the...
Because 75% to 80% of all convictions for serious crimes are based on presumably voluntary confessions, police and prosecutors have been in a tailspin ever since. Does Escobedo apply only to precisely similar situations? Or does it mean that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel...
The new agency is the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., which is scheduled to replace the National Lutheran Council in 1967. Besides coordinating the educational, welfare and mission work of the nation's three big Lutheran churches, it will provide a framework for Missouri to discuss its theological differences...
New Principle. The confession problem stems from the court's own decision last June in Escobedo v. Illinois, which voided a Chicago murder confession because the police had refused to let the suspect see his lawyer. Escobedo seemed to establish a new principle: that a grilled suspect has a...