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Speaking for a slim 5-to-4 majority, Warren made it clear that he, along with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas and William Brennan, was convinced that questioning in the back room of a police station-the kind of questioning that led to all four confessions under...
"While there can be no doubt of the original laudable purpose of juvenile courts," wrote Justice Abe Fortas, "there may be grounds for concern that the child receives the worst of both worlds: that he gets neither the protections accorded to adults nor the solicitous care and regenerative treatment postulated...
Two pending cases lend urgency to Fortas' fears. In 1957 Robert A. Miller, 16, was picked up for auto theft in Seattle, summarily sent to an adult court and given a ten-year sentence. Now 25, and still in prison, Miller argues that he was denied due process and...
Whipcracking Impatience. Ignoring the guffaws, Shriver brought to the task of shaping programs the same idealism and frenetic urgency with which he infused the Peace Corps. At the suggestion of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a longtime friend of the President's who was then a Washington lawyer, OEO...
Overturning the Los Angeles decision, the Supreme Court ruled that franchise terms were not at issue. Gen eral Motors and its dealer associations, said Justice Abe Fortas, had removed a "class of traders from the market"-an antitrust violation per se. With that decision, discounters apparently won open season on...