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...outburst of bourgeois baroque-extravagant in form, larger than life, gaudy, ridiculous, but above all productive and resolutely confident. No man better personified this outburst than Explorer Richard Burton,* the magnifico of satanic mien who prowled through unmapped regions like a lion, visited the forbidden cities of Mecca, Medina and Harrar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika...
Soft Approach. Equally upset was 79-year-old Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment...
...police, Medina argued that courts have "absolutely no control" over them because they belong to the executive branch of government. Other judges disagree: police are widely considered an integral part of the administration of justice. The Supreme Court's famous Mallory rule commands federal police to bring suspects promptly before U.S. commissioners. In Mapp (1961), Escobedo (1964) and Miranda (1966), the court in effect ordered all American police to maintain certain standards on pain of losing their evidence. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred Gittelson ordered all local police and prosecutors to obey an A.B.A.-style code...
...Little Give? Many lawyers applaud Medina's voluntary approach with its passionate defense of the First Amendment and its main reliance on a toughening of the A.B.A.'s Canon 20, which has rarely if ever been enforced since it was written in 1908 to prevent lawyers from publicly discussing pending cases. Unhappily for Medina's hopes, Canon 20 may be a frail reed: all efforts to reform it over the past decade have failed. Reform seems more likely by the imposition of court rules, even though Medina called it "unwise...
...draft may not be used to stifle dissent. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit four weeks ago. But, added Judge Harold Medina, it is still a crime to evade the draft. And the Viet Nam war, in addition to provoking peacenik protesters, has also increased the number of plain draft dodgers. In 1964, 144 men were jailed on draft-dodging charges for an average of 21 months. Last year the number jumped to 266, and the average sentence was 26 months...