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...patrol's dismay, Florida's Attorney General Earl Faircloth last week went far beyond Williams' analysis in a ruling that suspended the use of radar and electronic timers as well as airplanes. Under current Florida law, said Faircloth, the information provided by all these gadgets is hearsay evidence and is therefore inadmissible. To restore electronic enforcement, Faircloth urged the state legislature to legalize such information by classifying it as prima-facie evidence. If the legislature agrees, Florida courts will be able to accept the evidence as conclusive whenever the defendant fails to rebut...
...more important than its long-held pride in open debate. He asked for an extraordinary secret session, only the second held since the middle of World War II.* "Things might be said that aren't particularly true and could be harmful," reasoned Mansfield. "Rumor and hearsay can be damaging...
...ROTC during the freshman year. None of them, however, consider proctors generally anti-ROTC. "I would anticipate that a few proctors might talk down ROTC," says Harry P. Kerr '64, Faculty Advisor to ROTC, "but so far there is no real evidence of it. All we have is rank hearsay." At least seven of the thirty or more proctors have been in ROTC; these proctors tend to recommend the program if it adapts well to an individual case...
...farther and farther outside the Constitution. Today young Americans generally have no right to bail, counsel or public jury trial. One quarter of the country's juvenile court judges have had no legal training; lawyers appear in less than 5% of juvenile cases. Committal is often based on hearsay evidence; the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt is not required. Not only does incarceration often exceed adult sentences for the same offenses; for lack of youth facilities, 100,000 delinquents a year wind up in adult jails...
...Eager to rejoice in the Supreme Court's apparent step backward toward your own smug preference for guarding society from "smut peddlers," [April 1] you neglect to criticize the Ginzburg case for its deviation from the legal distinction between direct and hearsay evidence: is obscenity now to be defined by examining not the product itself but how the salesman touts it? If indeed Americans so desperately need guidance that censorship is necessary, let our mentors at least concern themselves with the contents of the allegedly pornographic package instead of its wrapping...