Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking note of warnings that giving suspects such a right to counsel would greatly diminish the number of confessions obtained by police between arrest and formal indictment, Justice Goldberg, who wrote the five-man majority opinion, said, "This argument cuts two ways. The fact that many confessions are obtained during this period points up its critical nature at a stage when legal aid and advice are surely needed." Law enforcement "which comes to depend on the confession," declared Justice Goldberg, "will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic...
...Last week, in a ruling that will cause profound changes in American criminal procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Danny's conviction. In last year's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the court held that every defendant in a state or federal criminal trial is entitled to counsel. In Danny's case, the court extended the Gideon principle and ruled that a person is entitled to consult with counsel as soon as an investigation makes him a prime suspect...
...Luther Hodges said that the cut "is beginning to take effect pretty well." There was a distinct shift in mood among the nation's storekeepers, many of whom had not seen much change at the cash registers in the first few weeks after the reduction. Said James Bliss, counsel for the National Retail Merchants Association: "All of a sudden, merchants seem to be unified in the belief that the extra dol lars are finding their way into stores all down the line...
...television viewer sated with Perry Mason, Sam Benedict, Defenders and assorted colleagues, the supply of first-rate criminal lawyers may appear plentiful enough. But outside the range of the TV camera, the breed is in danger of dying out. Such noble concepts as "right to counsel, fair trial, and due process" will become meaningless, warned New York State Chief Judge Charles S. Desmond last week, unless more lawyers are willing to represent criminal defendants. Addressing Boston University's graduating law class, he called on law schools to stop pointing students "at the two admired goals of Wall Street...
...failure to buy their $50 gambling stamps, brought Costello along on a vagrancy charge, being, as the law says, "without visible means of support." Fortunately, his attorney explained that he was "retired," and even the New York Civil Liberties Union came to his defense. "An outrage!" barked its counsel, Emanuel Redfield. "An action of a police state, not a democracy...