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So far, the best guess of Washington lawyers is that the court may simply require police to warn prime suspects of their rights-partly because the court may now be as closely divided as it was in Escobedo. When Justice Goldberg departed for the U.N., he left eight Justices who...
Ex-Prosecutor Clark is determined to do what he can to prevent so drastic a change in U.S. justice. Under a 1964 law, indigent federal prisoners may now be represented by paid public defenders, and last year Clark suggested that law students could aid the federal defenders while learning the...
To enforce the code, which has yet to be approved by the American Law Institute's full membership, the drafters aim to exclude illegal confessions and such "poisonous fruits" as incriminating leads gathered from inadmissible statements. The drafters have stirred intense controversy by 1) approving some interrogation without lawyers...
True Purposes. For decades, most states so neglected criminal justice that in recent years the U.S. Supreme Court has intervened with a vengeance. Predictably, California is a bright exception. Often in far-reaching opinions by Traynor, the California court has been among the first to modernize the legal definition of...
Pride & Problems. Widely praised as it is, though, Gideon has inevitably raised problems. It pointed the way for Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), which recognize an accused's right to see his lawyer during police interrogation and started the current U.S. confession controversy, and it has not been easy to...