Word: informing
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...mere dicta (discussions not crucial to a decision), the new court has snipped away at due-process precedents. So far, the chief casualty has been the Warren Court's famous decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which held that police cannot question a suspect in custody until they inform him of his constitutional rights to silence and counsel. At issue this term in Harris v. New York was whether statements made by an unwarned suspect could be used to impeach his testimony at trial. By a vote of 5 to 4, the new court said yes (provided there...
Similarly, when the announcement of his selection as Pusey's successor came in January, Bok set a two-week timetable to clear out his desk as dean and begin assimilating the duties of the President. He vowed to "devote six months exclusively to trying to inform myself both by going to other institutions and by learning more about the different parts of this...
...cautious manner, however, is still evident. He continued, "It's difficult to inform oneself adequately on the wide range of public issues. One isn't going to be listened to for very long, if at all, unless he speaks with authority, from factual knowledge...
After hearing the tapes, Sadat called up Sharaf and told him to inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...
...found out about the case and if sufficient merit is found, HVD's faculty advisor, Livingston Hall, Pound Professor of Law, contacts local counsel to whom the briefs and papers can be forwarded. When the research discloses no need to pursue the case, Hall writes the prisoner to inform him of HVD's decision...