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...understandably irritated over this treatment, especially when police refused his own brother permission to see him. His irritation raised a little-understood legal issue: What are the rights of a material witness? He got in touch with a pair of Memphis attorneys, Harvey Gipson, 37, and Jay Fred Friedman, 33, who pored over the laws of not only Tennessee but other states for precedents. While most states permit the jailing of witnesses, the attorneys found, the laws have been applied only in extreme circumstances-when there is clearly no other way to guarantee a witness's appearance in court...
...been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied due process and that his bail was excessive...
SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman's tense comedy makes a mockery of the sacred cows and shibboleths of an illiberal liberal, a manic hero who runs amuck on a Riviera holiday...
...MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. From the novel about how not to be a Jewish mother...
SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman's tense comedy makes a mockery of the sacred cows and shibboleths of an illiberal liberal. Jerry Orbach is the manic hero run amuck on a Riviera holiday...