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Last week the real jurist decided his course of action. At least indirectly, Federal District Court Judge Walter Jay Skinner had encouraged the idea. After handing down the tough sentence last fall, he had promised Krutschewski's lawyers that he would consider any sensible alternative sentence stripping the veteran of his tainted wealth. But the defense proposal failed to satisfy Skinner. In a 13-page decision, he concluded that the payment, large as it might be, would not be a great enough deterrent to stop the smuggling along the New England coast. Skinner also worried about the scheme...
...nation's top jurist, Chief Justice Warren Burger, warned last month about the "reign of terror in American cities" and bitingly asked: "Are we not hostages within the borders of our own selfstyled, enlightened, civilized country?" Some criminologists answer that the fear of becoming a victim of crime is greater than the actual risk, but no one denies that the fear is real. Proclaimed the Figgie Report, a privately funded study of crime in the U.S.: "The fear of crime is slowly paralyzing American society." Observes Houston Police Chief B.K. Johnson: "We have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point...
...William Clark, is a Republican loyalist from California who worked for Reagan when he was Governor and was eventually elevated by Reagan to the state supreme court. Clark is worried lest his departure from the California court leave a vacancy that Governor Jerry Brown might fill with a liberal jurist, further tipping the court's balance toward the left. For Deputy Treasury Secretary, Reagan's more conservative supporters are urging the appointment of New York Drug Store Magnate Lewis Lehrman, an outspoken proponent of a return to the gold standard. But Donald Regan, the designated Treasury Secretary, reportedly...
...before Nixon, Douglas believed that the secret conference room of the Supreme Court was bugged. Chief Justice Earl Warren once had the FBI "sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping at my heels." Sick and in pain, he did finally outlast Nixon. When he left the high court in 1975, he had served 36 years, longer than...
...treaty, in effect, consecrates the dictum laid down by Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1609 that the oceans of the world belong to everyone. The problem, says Richardson, was that "the old Grotius order was breaking down." When negotiations first began, 50 countries had extended the traditional three-mile territorial limit to twelve miles, and many had pushed it to 200 miles. Bickering over fishing rights had even flared into gun battles. Freedom of passage through strategic straits was jeopardized. The discovery of mineral nodules on the seabed raised questions never defined in international law. The draft treaty attempts...