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...Oregon University and was a member of the Emerald-- the newspaper currently under attack. Last year he told an Oregon journalism class, "Don't break a confidence." This year, Frye has decided that you should break a confidence "when ordered to do so by the court." What he had meant before was that a reporter should protect sources such as the holders of public office--like District Attorney Frye for example...
...stay entirely silent on an issue that is on everyone's mind. At last year's Governors Conference all members present endorsed President Johnson's conduct of the war, with the exceptions of Romney of Michigan (who later adhered to the endorsing resolution when he learned what it meant) and Hatfield of Oregon...
...race to unseat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, dropped $300,000 into the party coffers at a Los Angeles lovefest. Though the affair's main speaker was ex-Californian Richard M. Nixon, Reagan earlier announced that he did not need campaign help from outside the state-a message clearly meant to dissociate himself further from Barry Goldwater. "This campaign is for the people of California," said Reagan, "and I personally would like to keep it that...
...famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a lawyer meant a "clear danger of convicting the innocent." The same went for a case where a jury may have relied on an involuntary confession to convict (Jackson v. Denno). "Confessions," said Warren, "are likely to be highly persuasive with a jury, and if coerced, they may well be untrustworthy by their very...
Ultimate Vindication. In essence, that meant that federal courts in a variety of circumstances will continue to review state court convictions just as they have in the past. But pretrial intervention will continue to be a rare tactic. There are, added Stewart, specific situations in which such intervention is permitted. One of them grows out of the public-accommodation section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In Georgia v. Rachel, a separate decision announced the same day, Stewart, speaking this time for a unanimous court, held that no one may even be prosecuted in a state court for peacefully...