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This "musical play" plants Cervantes in the dungeons of the Inquisition and pivots on the device of having him defend himself and his book in a mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not...
At the heart of the argument is the Fifth Amendment guarantee that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." That guarantee establishes a system of justice based on accusation, not inquisition. In essence, it commands Government to prove guilt by independent evidence...
Slightly Unfashionable. Proust's anguished genius gets the same policeman-like inquisition, but by a wholly sympathetic cop. The novelist's homosexuality, his experiments in degradation, weigh no more and no less than his unfailing kindness to inferiors, his fabulous powers of observation, his unequaled ability to transmute...
Because 75% to 80% of all convictions for serious crimes are based on presumably voluntary confessions, police and prosecutors have been in a tailspin ever since. Does Escobedo apply only to precisely similar situations? Or does it mean that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel...
Three and a half centuries ago, the Vatican's Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office forbade the Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei to "hold or defend" the Copernican theory, which Galileo's telescopes had verified, that the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa. Galileo stayed...