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Speaking for the court, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard declared that the U.S. Constitution does not automatically command a warning to suspects. Lumbard called it "highly undesirable to lay down a rule which would deprive police of the opportunity to question suspects and to use such statements as are found to have been given voluntarily and to have been procured fairly." Said Lumbard: "In our country a most valuable right of law-abiding citizens, who make up the great majority of our people, is the right to be protected against lawbreakers and criminal interference with their liberty and property...
...most ambitious of all efforts at reform is the American Bar Association's three-year project to offer state legislatures "minimum standards" of criminal procedure. Started last year, under Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the undertaking is being researched by 80 of the country's top police officers, judges and lawyers. One A.B.A. committee seeks ways to get lawyers for indigents in all 3,100 of the nation's counties; more than two years after Gideon, there has been virtually no progress in 2,900 counties handling...
Judge Desmond's complaint is buttressed by some compelling testimony. In the current Atlantic, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York writes that in his busy jurisdiction bail bondsmen steer paying defendants to "a lawyer who will kick back to them a substantial part of the fee." Often this "lazy and incompetent" court hanger-on falsely claims that he can "fix someone" for a higher fee. Since he "seldom knows any law or reads any cases," his arguments in court are "so transparently hollow that it is not easy for most juries...
...Lumbard. "The judge usually picks out some lawyer who happens to be in the courtroom," typically a novice just admitted to practice. "After a few minutes of conference, the defendant is advised to plead guilty, and he feels he has no choice but to do so. Everyone who participates in these proceedings knows that this is a farce...
...remedy the situation, Judge Lumbard would require criminal-trial training for admission to the bar. And he would try to keep lawyers interested in criminal cases by allowing them occasionally to prosecute as well as to defend-a long-admired practice that has helped keep many outstanding British barristers active in criminal...