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Last week the payoff came when police arrested a new suspect in the Wylie-Hoffert murders: Richard Robles, 22, an ex-convict and narcotics addict, whose habit is said to require "about five bags of heroin a day." (Daily cost: roughly $100 or more.) The evidence against Robles reportedly rests on the word of a friend-turned-informer, Nathan Delaney, 35, another addict with three criminal convictions...
...Court since the early 1920s. The court holds that only voluntary confessions are trustworthy; it believes, said Justice Felix Frankfurter, that "society carries the burden of proving its charges against the accused not out of his own mouth." Accordingly, the defendant must go free if the evidence used to convict him includes a true yet tainted confession...
...years ago, Chicago papers seemed equally determined to convict a suspected killer. TERRORIST BARRY COOK ADMITS SLAYING WOMAN IN PARK ran one banner headline that was only part of a noisy press chorus demanding swift court retribution for the crime. This sort of coverage did not abate until Cook's trial jury, obviously unresponsive to newspaper suggestion, acquitted the defendant...
...cited by defenders of the press's habit of trying cases in print. At discussions on press freedom and fair trial, Managing Editor Robert Notson of the Portland Oregonian has repeatedly and vainly asked lawyers and judges to name one occasion on which hostile newspaper publicity helped convict an innocent...
Guest Star Robert Redford is an escaped convict intent on killing his court-appointed lawyer (E. G. Marshall), whom he blames for his life sentence...