Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could eliminate the jury, we would save a lot of time. You can try a case without a jury in one day that would take you a week or two weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied...
Burger also questioned the practice of barring from court evidence obtained in violation of a law or a constitutional right (such as that gained by illegal wiretap). And he accused defense lawyers of "clogging the system by an excess of zeal" when they use every available legal means to clear their client...
...always be unanimous. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, Douglas noted, continues to be primarily an instrument of discipline and not justice. He indicted the system as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice" and as "singularly inept in dealing with the nice subtleties of constitutional law...
...dissenting opinion, Justices Potter Stewart, Byron White and John Marshall Harlan complained that the decision furnishes few guidelines for selecting the type of crime that would be considered "service-connected." The ruling, they argued, puts the law into a "demoralizing state of uncertainty." The three Justices contended that the military has the right to purge criminals whose attitudes might corrupt others in the ranks. "The soldier who acts the part of Mr. Hyde while on leave," they said, "is at best a precarious Dr. Jekyll when back on duty...
Dennis Barr, 26, University of Southern California, heads his class with a 3.93 average (out of a possible 4) and sees business as a steppingstone to his ultimate goal: politics. The treasurer of the California Young Republicans, he worked in the Goldwater campaign. Barr, who also has a law degree, plans to spend the next ten years making enough money so that he can afford full-time politics. Still, he turned down a $25,000 offer from a consulting company and instead accepted $15,000 and commissions from a new firm that specializes in underwriting small and medium-sized issues...