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Rarely has the Supreme Court of the U.S. known a richer personality than Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. "F.F.," as he was known to his brethren, grated on some of them as a hyperactive pedant: he charmed others as the most rewarding friend of their lives. He was insatiably curious; he knew everyone, read everything. He talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have...
...memorial service for the late Felix Frankfurter, former professor of Law and Supreme Court Justice, will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Ames Court Room in Austin Hall...
Although the flesh was in Washington, nobody at Harvard Law School could ever doubt that Felix Frankfurter was really there, in Austin and Langdell, all the time. To start with, there were the portraits. In Langdell South, pictured in red robes, he looked oddly like a cardinal; in the Root Room, the Gardner Cox painting caught the very man. Etchings, photographs, a statue in the reading room--there was no escaping the likenesses...
...Felix Frankfurter, former professor at the Law School and retired Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died yesterday...
...then disregard it? To Jackson's lawyers, the unanswered questions suggested a solid case of violated due process. Coerced confessions, however true, have been outlawed as evidence by the Supreme Court since the early 1920s. The court holds that only voluntary confessions are trustworthy; it believes, said Justice Felix Frankfurter, that "society carries the burden of proving its charges against the accused not out of his own mouth." Accordingly, the defendant must go free if the evidence used to convict him includes a true yet tainted confession...