Word: leidner
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...hoods that were discarded near both holdups. Their method was to match hairs on the hoods with hairs on Neal's head. Armed with a court order from Common Pleas Judge Edward Griffith, the police were about to clip Neal's tresses when his lawyer, Milton S. Leidner, foiled them with a restraining order obtained in another court. The Constitution "intends that no man be forced to incriminate himself," says Leidner. When Judge Griffith overruled him, Leidner made a deal. Borrowing the judge's scissors, he snipped seven chunks off Neal's head, locked them...
...Leidner faces obstacles. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in 1944 that the privilege against self-incrimination applies only to verbal questions, not to compulsory physical or mental examinations. But things are changing fast. In Rochin v. California (1952), for example, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because the evidence against him was obtained by forced stomach pumping. It is anomalous, wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, "to hold that to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach...