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...gratifying to learn that a majority of citizens in Mississippi condemn such actions as church bombings and lynchings. This, however, seems incongruous in light of the recent decision of Miss Esther Carter to set free the 21 alleged lynchers of three civil rights workers. According to the Justice Department, her ruling was reached without precedent in either British or American law. Such disregard for state decisions may have been rationalized in colonial America where limited precedents existed. However, precedents concerning procedure for admitting evidence are numerous today. Already there are misgivings about the judge who will convene the Grand Jury...
...When I write a book entitled Profiles in Cowardice, Miss Esther Carter will be the subject of Chapter...
...example of justice that Commissioner Esther Carter portrayed in Mississippi [Dec. 18] would probably be enough to cause such early suffragettes as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone to turn over in their graves. They fought to bring women into the forefront of world affairs with an image of virtue and integrity, which Carter tarnished in one brief moment...
Commissioner Esther Carter's ignorance is in the best (or worst) tradition of an ancient office that now requires no special qualifications whatever. In 1793, Congress began appointing "discreet persons, learned in the law" to accept bail in federal cases. The qualifications died in 1896, when Congress handed over the appointments to U.S. district judges. Today's 700 U.S. commissioners may be butchers, bakers or candlestick makers. Yet they function as the federal judiciary's committing magistrates, hold preliminary hearings and determine whether accused persons shall be released or held for trial...
...backland farmers in overalls, local Negroes, big-city Northern reporters and a few young civil rights workers-many of whom badly needed haircuts and a fresh change of clothes. The Justice Department lawyer was young (34), crew-cut Robert Owen. At the front of the room sat U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter, a middleaged, Mississippi-born spinster...