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Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops...
...Jeanne and Harlan Davis tangled with police at a boite they ran called the Golden Nugget in suburban Los Angeles. There, the cops spied ex-Dancer Jeanne, 36, modeling the lower half of a leopardskin bikini without the upper half. Distressed, they arrested the Davises for violating Section 650½ of the state penal code, a catchall law for moral suasion that forbids any act "which openly outrages public decency." Fined $276 and put on three years' probation, the Davises carried their case to a three-judge panel of California's Second District Court of Appeal, which last...
...constitute an American military posture. The U.S. has learned many lessons from Viet Nam, but probably the most important is that military means, no matter how strong or skillful, are no longer enough to prevent or even to win wars. "The most important part of our military posture," says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, "is the political framework within which we use our power." Secretary McNamara, in his already famous Montreal speech, forcefully pointed out that, in a world of haves and havenots, military power alone cannot purchase security. "Without internal development of at least a minimal degree," McNamara...
...insistence on the importance of the "focus" point, struck the four dissenters as all wrong. Not only is the rule unworkable "unless police cars are equipped with public defenders," declared Justice Byron White, but it "reflects a deep-seated distrust of law-enforcement officers everywhere." Said Justice John M. Harlan...
...bent on putting people off the land-that's the men who are on the poverty committee. You just come up with the resources, and we'll show you what we can do with the money." Carl Johnson of Harlan County, Ky., said his area was no better off despite $1,000,000 in poverty funds...