Word: confessionals
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White on a ride in a car and riddled him with 30-cal. slugs and shotgun pellets. Despite that confession, Jones' trial ended in a hung jury. And though he was indicted again as an accessory after the fact, he has never been retried. Avants was later acquitted in...
Throughout the interrogation, Fonda portrays Bottomley as a subtle mixture of priest and detective, probing DeSalvo to extract the confession that he wants. Unfortunately, the finesse in the interrogation ends there. The camera cuts in for overly searching closeups of Curtis, whose baggy faces droops a millimeter or two as...
Crisis-Laden Situation. In both New Haven and Washington, Miranda warnings were presented to suspects in a wooden, unsympathetic manner. Some suspects got the impression that if they took advantage of their rights police might get angry and throw the book at them. As the Yale study points out, a...
The reports from New Haven and Washington clearly suggest that police are violating both the letter and the spirit of Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains...
10. The Queen's Confession, Holt