Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey defense lawyer. "A black-letter day for law enforcement," mourned a Philadelphia prosecutor. Tossing out two New Jersey murder confessions, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia had just ruled that even voluntary confessions are inadmissible whenever police fail to tell suspects that they have a right to counsel and to remain silent when questioned...
...Escobedo v. Illinois. In that case the Supreme Court reversed Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder conviction because he had confessed after the police refused to let him see his lawyer, who was waiting at the station house. Rather vaguely, the court held that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect...
...Escobedo with any new decision, some 27 lower courts have groped for the right interpretation. Last year the Illinois Supreme Court took the "hard" approach in People v. Hartgraves. It said that a confession is admissible even though the police do not advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence. Last January the California Supreme Court took the "soft" approach in People v. Dorado. It said that police failure to advise the suspect of those rights invalidates his confession even though he made no formal request for counsel...
Defending Counsel Melvin Belli, who has been offered all kinds of curious jobs since he defended Jack Ruby, ingeniously asked for dismissal on the grounds that the girls had been made to incriminate themselves, since nobody had told them they could refuse to have their pictures taken in the nonattire they were not wearing when they were arrested. Municipal Judge Leo Friedman concurred, further ruled that bare bosoms, in and of themselves, are neither lewd, lascivious nor obscene, and advised the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. The jury complied...
...undergraduate in the College, served as president of PBH and an Ames Award at graduation. He worked for two years in the Bureau Study Counsel while completing work Master's degree in Teaching...