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...federal law supersedes the Supreme Court decision. The 1968 law, a Congressional reaction to outrage over the first Miranda decision, allows "voluntary" confessions to be used in court even if suspects had not been read their Miranda rights. The original ruling, he argues, was a "provisional, interim judgment" to allow Congress to consider other appropriate alternatives. However, even judges who have been critical of Miranda find that argument difficult to accept. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a conservative who has expressed distaste for the ruling in the past, seemed to acknowledge that Miranda is constitutionally necessary...
...tell us, is really a sign of not having mastered time. There is plenty I don't plan--dinner, coffee, a Saturday afternoon picnic, staying up all night to finish a book not for class. My plans are guidelines from the past, but they rarely interfere with an updated judgment. As evidenced by my errant Four-Year Plan, I'm not bound to designs once they cease to be personally relevant; particular times in the future are also tricky distinctions...
...frightening is that, for five months, the rule of law was replaced by the rule of the mob. It is frightening that such irresponsible behavior would continue with the tacit support of local authorities. And it is frightening that a community could let its political agenda cloud its best judgment by preventing a boy from being reunited with his father...
...dean needs sound academic judgment, since one of the responsibilities is serving with other Academic Deans to advise the Dean of the Faculty on appointments and promotions," he adds...
...were incompetent. In three cases, Texas courts have upheld convictions in death penalty cases where the defense lawyer fell asleep during the trial. The trial judge ruled that the Constitution may guarantee the right to a lawyer, but it "does not say the lawyer has to be awake"; this judgment was affirmed, although not in so many words, by the highest criminal court in the state. Without a meaningful check on their lawyer's incompetence, poor defendants in Texas are truly thrown on the mercy of the court...