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...meantime, Congress will have to let Powell have his cake and eat it too. As Supreme Court Justice Mathew Levy commented while citing the Harlem Democrat for criminal contempt of court, "It is not an easy task to punish a minister, a Congressman, a leader of men and a man of many natural gifts." As Congress must concede, without an ethics bill it is impossible to punish...
...voters approved Gibson's pioneering plan to ease aging or incompetent judges out of office (TIME, March 26). But sound organization is only half the story. Equally vital is the quality of California's high court, which currently includes such able men as Justices Mathew O. Tobririer, Paul Peek and Raymond E. Peters. Most important of all is the brilliant legal mind of Gibson's successor, Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor, 65. Traynor, says Illinois' own distinguished Justice Walter V. Schaefer, is "the nation's No. 1 state judge...
...Traynor suggested in 1961 that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer as soon as the police are prepared to charge him. In 1964 the Supreme Court followed that path in Escobedo v. Illinois, the case that police now fear will eliminate all confessions. Indeed, California's Justice Mathew Tobriner amplified Escobedo last January by holding for the court in People v. Dorado that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence voids his confession, even though he may not have asked for a lawyer. Last spring the Supreme Court let Dorado stand...
...MATHEW O. TOBRINER...
...Steward of the DU Club has been red following his conviction last week on charges of attempting to bribe a Cambridge police officer and serving liquor to a minor. Mathew T. Smith, the steward involved, has appealed both convictions...