Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finland's wage-price spiral rises unchecked, largely because of welfare state benefits that are beyond its means. The Finns are such heavy topers that the government wraps every bottle of liquor in a temperance tract. More worrisome for a nation of only 4,500,000 is the legal abortion rate, which has doubled in ten years, and at 71.6 per 1,000 is one of Europe's highest. There are an estimated 20,000 illegal abortions yearly as well...
...would greatly diminish the number of confessions obtained by police between arrest and formal indictment, Justice Goldberg, who wrote the five-man majority opinion, said, "This argument cuts two ways. The fact that many confessions are obtained during this period points up its critical nature at a stage when legal aid and advice are surely needed." Law enforcement "which comes to depend on the confession," declared Justice Goldberg, "will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation. If the exercise of constitutional rights...
...grandson of the first Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), the Supreme Court's "Great Dissenter" (316 dissents in 33 years). But Harlan's opposition to Court trends stems, in fact, from his belief that a judicial decision must be based on "uniformly applied legal principle, not on ad hoc notions of what is right or wrong in a particular case." The main difference between Jus tice Harlan and the rest of the court, says a former Harlan law clerk, is that he "is confined by what he considers his limited role, which is to apply statutes...
...wants to hinder the course of justice, but must it run amok?" The language of Hamburg's Welt am Sonntag was inordinately strong, but then the German press and public had taken an inordinately long time to get upset. The cause of the outcry was an old German legal custom called Untersuchungshaft (investigative arrest), which has its roots in Roman law and allows a prosecutor to jail a mere suspect for years-so long as he can convince a judge that the man might flee the country or tamper with evidence and witnesses...
...will be guaranteed the right to refuse to testify against himself, the opportunity to refute the charges at the initial hearing, and the privilege of private consultation with his lawyer. More important, leading German legislators regard the bill as only the beginning in overhauling the country's archaic legal system...