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...YALE KAMISAR...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...
Other signers include David Hurwitz '25, associate clinical professor of Medicine; Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; Yale Kamisar, visiting professor of Law; John, H. Mansfield '51, professor of Law; David L. Shapiro '54, assistant professor of Law; Henry J. Steiner '51, assistant professor of Law; and Bernard Wolfman, visiting professor...
...other Harvard professors are serving on Countryman's committee. Writing memoranda on cases now before the Court are Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Ernest J. Brown, professor of Law, and Yale Kamisar and Charles A. Wright, visiting professor of Law. Mark DeWolfe '28, and Albert M. Sacks, professors of Law, still waiting to be assigned cases...
...Crime Climate. Kamisar reports a similar reaction to the 1957 McNabb-Mallory rule, which forbids federal (but not state) police from using statements produced during prolonged precommitment interrogation. Washington, D.C.'s Police Chief Robert V. Murray has argued ever since 1957 that crime in the capital steadily decreased during the four previous years, and steadily increased thereafter. As it happens, says Kamisar, 1957 marked "the alltime low for crime under the District's modern reporting system." In the full decade 1950-60, "although the national crime rate soared 98% , the District's rate barely rose...