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...freeing Dollree Mapp for an offense committed in 1957 while holding Victor Linkletter for an offense committed in 1958. The result, wrote Black, was "grossly invidious and unfair discrimination against Linkletter simply because he happened to be prosecuted in a state that was well up with its criminal docket." But the court stuck to its pragmatic rule that Mapp now applies only to current and future cases-thus delighting prosecutors across the country...
...case, which is listed third on the court's docket, will probably be heard sometime early in the week. Philip M. Cronin '52, the attorney for the Coop, estimated yesterday that the hearing will last about a day and that it will be several weeks before a decision is handed down. The side which loses will probably appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
...Faculty Committee on Admission includes about 22 members, well distributed among the departments and administrative offices. There are a few "specialists" who have been on the Committee for several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While...
...inadmissable, sends it to the next scheduled reader. When the folder has gone through three readings (only two if the applicant is particularly strong in every way), and has been assigned a PRL (Predicted Rank List), it is stored in a "coffin" to await being listed on a geographical docket and considered by the whole Admissions Committee...
...Faculty Committee on Admission includes about 22 members, well distributed among the departments and administrative offices. There are a few "specialists" who have been on the Committee for several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While...