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...school is still seeking accreditation by state bar examiners. President Holgate is unconcerned. If the school does not make it this time, he says, there will always be a second chance. But whether the examiners will offer that chance, when the law dean is an ex-convict, is anybody's guess...
...pretrial statements to the police can be used to impeach his courtroom testimony. In sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan argued that the effect of the decision is that police may now "freely interrogate an accused incommunicado" despite Miranda; the accused may then see his own careless words convict him "if he has the temerity to testify in his own defense." Brennan's argument failed to move Burger, who dismissed "the speculative possibility that impermissible police conduct will be encouraged...
Last week State Supreme Court Justice Frederick M. Marshall saw no merit in the grand jury's charges. After listening to four days' testimony, including the sheriff's statement that campus officials had tried to calm the crowd, the judge found insufficient evidence to convict Hobart and directed the jury to acquit the college. A professor and seven students will be tried later on charges ranging from drug possession to riot. Tongyai, now a police-science student at a nearby junior college, faces another problem. He has been charged with collecting $700 in state unemployment benefits while...
Hand called conspiracy "the darling of the modern prosecutor's nursery." To convict Father Philip Berrigan of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger, for example, the Government need not prove that the antiwar priest and his five co-defendants ever approached the presidential adviser or even laid eyes on him. It must simply show that there was an agreement and that at least one conspirator took an overt step toward carrying out the alleged plot...
...prisoners find themselves between the crushing walls of social ostracism and prison mores. But which of the two can the prisoner bear more easily? Statistics show for certain that most cannot cope with free-world rejection. Ironically, the freer of the two worlds for the convict is prison; it is there that he finds no social barriers like the pretentiousness of the elite. Who can blame former prisoners and parolees for seemingly breaking-down gates to get back...