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...annual spring flood of major U.S. Supreme Court decisions is still to come, but last week, after a brief recess, the Justices issued a series of rulings. One concerned an intriguing case involving drunken drivers. In disposing of hundreds of cases with cursory orders, the Justices left intact an appeals-court ruling on the game of Monopoly...
During a crackdown on drunken drivers, South Dakota enacted a 1980 law admitting such evidence. But the state supreme court concluded that the privilege against self-incrimination is violated if a driver is not free to say no to a Breathalyzer or blood test without fearing that his refusal could be used as evidence. Writing the U.S. high court's 7-to-2 decision, Sandra Day O'Connor contended that there was no compulsion, since the driver was free to take the test. The choice, she admitted, "will not be an easy or pleasant one for a suspect...
...been tried and may still escape punishment because the South Dakota Supreme Court based its decision not only on the federal Constitution but also on the state's constitutional guarantee against selfincrimination. Even so, says South Dakota Attorney General Mark Meierhenry, "looking at the war on drunken drivers nationally, we won an important victory. This law does aid in prosecution." Sixteen states have "refusal-as-evidence" laws like South Dakota's. So does the District of Columbia, which reports that the law has cut by half the number of drivers who decline to take the test...
Colonel Blake's sad departure, Trapper's hasty exit and Radar's return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H's final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying farewell...
...critics, the nationwide campaign to raise the legal drinking age is in high gear. It is likely to be bolstered by the results of an authoritative study, to be published next year by Duke University, that surveyed the 48 continental states from 1970 to 1977. It found that drunken-driving-related fatalities among 18-to 20-year-olds increased 7% when the legal drinking age was lowered from...