Word: miller
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...Government cannot use the draft to stifle dissent by critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, a U.S. appeals court recently ruled. But the critics have certainly not stopped using the draft to dramatize their dissent. Last week Pacifist David J. Miller, 24, not only used the draft, he used a court as well to stage one of the weirdest dissents of the year...
Last year Miller became the first person to be convicted under a new federal law that makes card burning punishable by as much as five years' imprisonment. U.S. Judge Harold R. Tyler Jr. suspended Miller's three-year sentence on condition, among other things, that he get a new draft card. Even after he lost an appeal and the Supreme Court refused to review the case (TIME, Feb. 24), Miller refused to get a card. Two weeks ago, he joined an anti-war demonstration at selective service headquarters in Washington, sat in the front doorway and blocked traffic...
...last year, but his 4.28 ERA is perhaps a better indicator of what to expect. The Orioles' three World Series shutouts of the tired Dodgers were more miracle than norm for a staff that compiled only 22 complete games all year. Their relievers saved them last year, but Stu Miller is approaching 40, Moe Drabowsky's 7-0 record was preceded by a 48-81 and 4.19 ERA lifetime mark, and Dick Hall is gone. Luis Aparicio, Boog Powell, Frank Robinson. Russ Snyder, and Paul Blair batted an average of 25 points higher than their career marks accumulated over...
...physical evidence at the 1956 trial, Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey presented a pair of "bloodstained" underpants that police had found one mile from the scene of the crime. The judge refused to let defense chemists analyze the pants, nor did Miller try them on. Miller usually wore boxer-type shorts; these were jockey type, and looked too small for Miller. But with those shorts, Miller's confession and his girl friend's testimony, Ramsey won the case hands down...
...seven years, the case bounced through nine appeals in state and federal courts. The strain was so great on Miller, who could only sit and wait on death row, that he was twice transferred to the psychiatric ward. Seven and a half hours before he was scheduled to be electrocuted in 1963, Miller won a stay for a federal habeas corpus hearing before Judge Perry, who heard testimony that raised troubling questions about the evidence in the 1956 trial...