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...urged "doing away with Miranda," the 1966 ruling that criminal suspects must be advised of their right not to answer questions, and he has denounced the 1961 Mapp vs. Ohio verdict blocking the use in a trial of illegally seized evidence. Such judgments aid only the guilty, he said, insisting, "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime...
...about the rights of the accused: "I subscribe to the doctrine that the Fifth Amendment, which says 'no person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself,' means that no person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself." And there goes Meese's position against Miranda. Black was also adamant about the 14th Amendment's power to apply the entire Bill of Rights to state...
...Miranda--a blond Venus with overbite--and her older lover are found murdered. He is wearing shoes by Bally; hers are red leather Charles Jourdan. Anyone who thinks the cause of death is more important than who made the footgear has missed the point. With flashbacks, overheated sex scenes and brand names, Gwen Davis announces her arrival in the high-rent district of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins: "A riveted audience at Elaine's, a heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made...
...Alstyne. Its prudence derived from the respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency situations, weakened the rights of suspects during pretrial procedures and identified some circumstances in which illegally obtained evidence could be admitted in court...
...fair, director Patrick Bradford's Tempest is worth seeing for its first-rate performances. Eric Oleson is superb as the aging Gonzalo, shuffling and pontificating with perfect ease. Nick Lawrence pulls off a highly credible Prospero; Naama Potok and Andrew Sullivan are convincing as the youthful lovers Miranda and Ferdinand...