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With that, the highest military court applied Miranda v. Arizona to the armed forces. The case at hand involved a long-shot quirk. On May 1, 1966, Airman Third Class Michael Tempia was detained for making obscene statements to three 10-year-old girls in a ladies' room at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Under military law, Tempia was advised that he would have a right to free military counsel-but only after being charged. After Tempia admitted the offense, he was tried on June 14, the day, it so happened, after the Supreme Court announced in Miranda that...
Clark has been in the thick of the Administration's fight for civil liberties. He was the department's troubleshooter during the 1965 Selma voting-rights drive and headed a presidential fact-finding mission after the Watts riots. Though his father dissented from the 1966 Miranda verdict banning confessions obtained without full warnings to defendants of their rights, Ramsey wholeheartedly endorses the Supreme Court's recent liberal rulings on interrogations and confessions. When Congress passed a stiff crime bill for the District of Columbia that he considered reactionary and unconstitutional, he prevailed on Johnson to veto...
...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 of pretrial silence. He simply called them "ministers of justice...
...Miranda's name became the shorthand title of last year's decision because his case chanced to be first on a list of four that the Supreme Court considered together. But the other three defendants seem to be little better off than their more famous compatriot. One, Roy Allen Stewart, will be retried in Los Angeles on murder-robbery charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence...
...While Miranda does not seem to have helped Miranda and his mates, it did free a confessed murderer in Brooklyn last week. Factory Worker José Suarez, 22, told police last April that he stabbed to death his common-law wife and her five children. But he had not been advised of his right to silence, and last week Justice Michael Kern was forced to turn him loose. Said Kern with unusual rancor: "Even an animal such as this one-and I believe this is insulting the animal kingdom-must be protected with all legal safeguards. It is repulsive...