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...along with their toothbrushes, for much of the global village is likely to be looking in. A Massachusetts lawyer tells the story of some women who were upset when an extended court session forced them to miss hairdresser appointments they had scheduled because of the TV coverage. Jurors judging Convict Author Jack Henry Abbott received hate calls after announcing their verdict. In Atlanta, those sitting on the case of Accused Killer Wayne Williams promised one another not to talk to the press. Explains one: "We didn't want harassment when it was all over...
...defendants, of course, are claiming that a second trial would violate the Fifth Amendment's double-jeopardy clause. The rule, as the Supreme Court reiterated it in 1975, is: "When a defendant has been once convicted and punished for a particular crime, principles of fairness and finality require that he not be subjected to the possibility of further punishment by being again tried or sentenced for the same offense." Scholars, nonetheless, tend to doubt that this precludes separate state prosecutions. Says University of Virginia Law Professor Stephen Saltzburg: "Two different states, or a state and the Federal Government...
...book makes two broad arguments on behalf of defense attorneys who exploit constitutional violations to clear their clients. The first is the traditional, liberal line: Someone's got to keep government prosecutors honest, by preventing them from, say, introducing unconstitutionally obtained evidence to convict defendants. When government is a lawbreaker, the argument goes, there can be no respect...
...that matter, imagine how to prosecutors must feel. Their legal careers will probably be crippled by a failure to convict a man whose smoking gun was repeatedly displayed on all three networks and on the front page of every newspaper in the country. America must again seem out of control, its priorities skewed way out proportion. How else would 12 men and women get the idea they were dispensing "justice" by treating America's latest villian with kid gloves...
That is why she needs a governess. As it develops, Miss Madrigal is an ex-convict, but she is an owl of wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...