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...order seems to be unprecedented. Nonetheless, "the judge had the discretion to do this," says Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan. "Any district-court judge has," because he has wide latitude in determining how the use of subpoena power will most effectively serve the court's interests...
...overwhelming majority of legal experts consider a fair trial for Agnew entirely possible. Stanford's Kaplan thinks the prejudicial damage is "not even close by the standards we usually apply to criminal law." He cites the Charles Manson case, in which damaging mid-trial publicity included a personal verdict of guilty by President Nixon. "Even there," notes Kaplan, "the court did not have much trouble deciding he could get a fair trial." Manson was, of course, convicted. But Philip Berrigan and the rest of the Harrisburg Seven got off, even after their alleged conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger...
HOWARD M. KAPLAN...
...purveyors of obvious pornography be prosecuted if they make a reasonable effort to exclude juveniles and to forewarn any adults who might be offended? When a Los Angeles plain-clothes policeman walked into a store and asked about "sexy books," the store's proprietor, Murray Kaplan, answered: "All our books are sexy." Kaplan was duly arrested and convicted for selling the policeman a book that "in vulgar, gutter language ... instructed on an act of oral copulation." Kaplan and the defendants in two similar cases (another bookstore, a movie theater proclaiming ADULTS ONLY) argue that if an adult is permitted...
Also selected were: John Q. Johnson of Leverett House and Chappaqua, N.Y.: Michael J. Kaplan of Mather House and Northport, N.Y.; R. Michael Kaus of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif.; David C. Kibbe of Eliot House and Hudson, Ohio; Hillel J. Kieval of Peabody Terrace and Auburndale; David A. Koplow of Winthrop House and Sioux Falls, S.D.; William H. Lohman of Quincy House and Providence, R.I.; Wayne H. McGuire of Dudley House and Somerville; and, Jerry A. Menikoff of Dunster House and Massapeque Park...