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...decisions that have not so much outraged as confused. The Justices, notes Yale Scholar Alexander Bickel, have yet to come up with a workable definition of obscenity. The decisions curbing police abuses have been almost as murky, says Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. "After Escobedo," he quips, "you need Miranda, and after Miranda, we will need maybe twelve more decisions...
...Miranda v. Arizona (1966) said that a defendant must be given a "fourfold warning" before he is questioned: 1) that he may remain silent, 2) that anything he says may be used against him, 3) that he may have a lawyer present, and 4) that, if indigent, he may have a lawyer without charge...
Specifically, in federal cases the Senators struck down the court's Miranda requirement that arrested suspects be told of their rights to silence and legal counsel. Down, too, went the ruling that such suspects have the right to have a lawyer present at lineups. The Senators also voided the court's holding that confessions may not be used if obtained during an unreasonable delay between arrest and arraignment. Such attacks on the court are not yet assured, however. The bill must now go to a Senate-House conference committee chaired by New York Representative Emanuel Celler, and Celler...
Updike devotes three hours a day to writing, occupying a cluttered room above a restaurant off the Ipswich green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate...
Finger of Suspicion. Criswell was in for another surprise. Because he had not suspected Bruce, he had not warned him of his rights to silence and counsel under the U.S. Supreme Court's Miranda decision. As a result, after one day of a nonjury trial last week, Judge Merle Lansden reluctantly barred the boy's confession and found him not guilty. "Before a confession is to be accepted when a person is in custody or his freedom of action is limited in any significant manner, he must be warned," said the judge. Mention of "the words lie detector" indicated "that...