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District Attorney Evelle Younger, 48, of Los Angeles County, was deeply concerned by the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
Immediately after the decision, ex-FBI Agent Younger ordered a Miranda survey taken throughout his county, which has the largest criminal-case load in the U.S. (see cover story). Younger's study covers a three-week period in June and July and deals with an impressive total of 2,780 felony cases. Younger admits that he was "amazed" by the results of the survey...
...Supreme Court's Miranda decision has dismayed some policemen, embittered some prosecutors, and baffled some judges. But U.S. television is taking it in stride. In Denver last week, a meeting of 500 district attorneys from across the country was visited by Actor Ben Alexander, burly, laconic co-star with Jack Webb in the popular Dragnet series of the 1950s. Puffing his new Felony Squad show, due next month on ABC, Alexander said: "The Supreme Court says we can't interrogate crooks any more. So what choice do we have?" His answer: "We shoot...
...There is a legal explosion!" With these words, courtly Orison Swett Marden, 60, newly elected president of the American Bar Association, summed up a dominant theme of the A.B.A.'s annual meeting held last week in Montreal. Such Supreme Court decisions as Gideon, Escobedo and Miranda have sharply expanded the U.S. right to counsel, requiring the services of many more lawyers and a deep change in the attitude of many A.B.A. members...
...wider perspective, a surprising number of police are grimly optimistic about learning to live with Miranda. "What do you mean, 'Can we?' " asks Florida Sheriff George Leppig. "We have to; it's the law of the land." Another Florida police official argues that Miranda will sharpen sleuthing by "getting the guys who depend on confessions off their duffs" and out searching for better evidence. Facing up to harder work than ever, a veteran Manhattan detective says that Miranda "of necessity makes us resort to the sciences." While all this may produce better policemen, it also requires more...