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CRIMINAL LAW. This is the President's special concern, and it is where the court can be expected to retreat most notably from some of the ground broken by the Warren court. The principal target will be the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities?except the police themselves?agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter...
Such a deal between a defendent and the prosecuting county or state occurs regularly in America. In recent years, confessions, traditionally induced through the third degree treatment, have been obtained by less physical means. Men like Jackson, Danny Escobedo, and Ernest Miranda have been deceived into trading their rights of constitutional and legal protection for the promise of a deal that rarely materializes, or have had their ignorance of those rights, their poverty, race, and-or previous records used against them...
...Princeton-educated son of a Chicago lawyer-politician and grandson of a Supreme Court Justice of the same name, Harlan opposed the Warren Court's decisions calling for reapportionment of legislatures in pursuit of a one-man, one-vote principle and the Miranda ruling throwing out confessions from criminal suspects not advised of their right to counsel. An advocate of judicial restraint, he objected to intervention by federal courts in state obscenity cases unless the state action was "clearly the product of prudish over-zealousness." In a recent capital-punishment decision-the court's most emotional pending issue...
...crowd of about 4,000 had gathered in the Plaza Miranda, a popular political forum in the heart of downtown Manila's shopping and business district. They had turned out to hear speeches by Liberal Party candidates for Manila's mayoralty and for eight of the country's 24 Senate seats. It was a festive occasion; balloons floated through the evening air and spectators waved fans printed with the candidates' names and slogans. The makeshift stage, built with old kerosene drums and boards, was crammed with Liberal Party officials, the smiling candidates and their wives...
...dismissing strong language in some Warren Court rulings as mere dicta (discussions not crucial to a decision), the new court has snipped away at due-process precedents. So far, the chief casualty has been the Warren Court's famous decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which held that police cannot question a suspect in custody until they inform him of his constitutional rights to silence and counsel. At issue this term in Harris v. New York was whether statements made by an unwarned suspect could be used to impeach his testimony at trial. By a vote...