Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the quasi-Thoreaus: Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Eric Bentley, Allen Ginsburg, Paul Goodman, Betty Friedan, Dwight Macdonald, Henry Miller, Terry Southern, Benjamin Spock, William Styron...
...very fact that they were reviewing the overturned conviction seemed a sign that the court's majority did not agree with the First Circuit's reasoning. In an earlier case, the court had allowed the Second Circuit's affirmation of the conviction of Card Burner David Miller to stand without interference. Any remaining hopes that O'Brien may have had must have waned when the justices began questioning his attorney...
...Chamber. When Gary Lee Miller, 17, was charged with the bludgeon murder of Judy Lee Ziegler, 20, few of the folks in Allegany County, Md., doubted that he was guilty. After all, he knew Judy and had been seen walking along the same road that Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that...
...Miller was extensively questioned after being picked up; at the trial, police said that he had made a confession. They also said that he did not ask to see a lawyer or call his parents, and that he had been properly informed of his rights. His lawyer said he hadn't been, and pointed out that he had refused to sign the supposed confession. Nevertheless, using notes, the county investigator at the trial simply read aloud everything that he claimed Gary had admitted. The defense objected, but was overruled...
...Electric Chair. On the surface at least, Fred Esherick Jr., 16, is nothing like Gary Lee Miller. He had never been convicted of any crimes. He was not from the hill country, but from a clean-cut suburb of Cleveland. What Fred did was to kill his father. And he admitted...