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...courts--what controls, for example, should be placed on plea bargaining, the process by which a great majority of cases are disposed of without trial in the lower courts, either through a decision to dismiss the case or a plea of guilty...
...Provide that "the jury is the exclusive judge of what the common conscience of the community is," that all obscenity cases shall be tried by jury "unless both parties waive a jury," and that "the court shall have no power to dismiss an obscenity proceeding if reasonable men could differ as to whether the material is obscene." All of which seems to contradict the Supreme Court's current doctrine that obscenity cases involve not only questions of fact for a jury but also constitutional issues that can be decided only by trial judges, appellate courts and the nation...
...need not be the conventional Sunday service at the parish church down the street; it is just as likely to be an unauthorized, experimental liturgy celebrated by a radical priest-friend in his own living room. Irreverence toward ecclesiastical tradition is common among Uncatholics. They tend to dismiss the veneration of Mary as irrelevant today and refer to the Mass as "the magic show." More seriously, these Catholics ask whether the church needs a Pope, or even whether the institutional church itself is necessary...
Sleight of Hand. Only the most bigoted proponents of the doctrine of common sense will dismiss these "sightings" as illusory. On the other hand, only those unusually gifted with credulity will accept the Edwards account of them, which offers an explanation more unlikely than the phenomena. For example: "Why were there virtually no UFO sightings from 1926 to 1946?" Obviously "they" (the occupants of the UFOs) were improving the design, which seems to beg the question of whether the UFOs had occupants and were designed...
Outraged, the Rose sisters asked Manhattan's Surrogate Court either to dismiss the executors or order them to bury the decedent. Surrogate Joseph A. Cox denied both motions, ruling that "it cannot be said that a fiduciary availing himself of a legal remedy is guilty of improper conduct." Added Cox: Burying the dead is the privilege of the next of kin, while it is "the obligation of the executors to pay the reasonable funeral expenses...