Word: miller
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Just back from a vacation, Chicago's U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry dealt quickly with a couple of routine items on his docket one morning last week. Then he turned to major business: Case No. 63-C-1426, that of Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. Last month the Supreme Court reversed the 1956 conviction of Cab Driver Miller for the rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near the Fulton County city of Canton, Ill. It was up to Judge Perry to answer the next question: Did the state have any basis for keeping Miller in custody...
...Miller's father, sitting in the courtroom, wept. Then he and his wife drove to Stateville Penitentiary. After ten years, during which he had faced execution ten separate times, their son, now 40, walked through the gates pulling a handcart piled with his possessions...
Blood-Stained Pants. Miller's ordeal began two days after the brutal crime incensed Canton on a Saturday afternoon in November 1955. Because he had left town Saturday night in one of his boss's cabs, the police suspected Miller and prodded his confused girl friend, Waitress Betty Baldwin, to sign a statement implicating him. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina. The police assured him that he was mentally ill and would...
...terms of Section 28, Sanders is probably right. As long as the record is not blatantly prurient, the blunt words and sexual allusions have no bearing on its legal status. In a 1962 decision which vindicated Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled: "It was not relevant that the book at many places was repulsive, vulgar, or grossly offensive in use of four-letter words and in detailed and coarse statement of sexual episodes...
...Miller was more concerned with theme than with characterization, and most of the male roles read like emblems or attitudes rather than people. As a result, an actor must add character through gesture or vocal power where the script doesn't supply it. Finch's male actors aren't good enough; all of them give unmodulated one-note performances. If an actor happens to hit the right note, as in the case of Tim Hall's paranoid Danforth, the performance can be extremely effective. But in the first two acts, Steve Hill as the nasty Reverend Parris and John Brady...