Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaying. The police never advised Danny of his right to remain silent; he was not allowed to consult his lawyer. Because the lawyer had previously told him not to talk, however, Danny's confession was ruled voluntary. He was sentenced to 20 years for first-degree murder. The state's highest court also saw the confession as voluntary, and refused to toss it out merely because Danny was denied counsel when he made...
...sprung him. Escobedo, said the judge, reaches "even overtime parking. I feel such misdemeanors are, in a technical sense, crimes. The same constitutional rights apply to the most minor misdemeanor as to the most serious felony." > The California Supreme Court has just refused to apply Escobedo retroactively in a murder case. The court saw Escobedo as aimed at "drying up sources of coercion in the future," but not applying to prisoners convicted before the decision. "To require a general release of prisoners of undoubted guilt would be to cripple the orderly administration of the criminal laws." The New Jersey Supreme...
...Chichikov (Vladimir Belokurov), an on-the-make bureaucrat who haggles with miserly and drunken aristocrats for their dead serfs (listed on the government tax rolls as alive) so that he may pose as a propertied man, float a mortgage loan, and make a fashionable marriage. Just as murder is war in miniature, Gogol's Chichikov is a comic common cold symbolizing all the perennial tragic sicknesses of Russia-but not in this hammy production. It looks as though the Soviet Establishment decided that when a masterpiece bites, one has to pull its satiric teeth...
Three-Act Drama. When a man is accused, of several crimes committed in a short period, many lawyers feel that fair practice is to try him first on the most serious charge. With only the now-suspect confession to go on, the prosecutors took a different tack. In the murder trials, if Whitmore took the stand to repudiate his confession, prior convictions would be admissible evidence to impeach his testimony. By arrangement between the Brooklyn and Manhattan D.A.s, Whitmore was thus tried first in Brooklyn, where the nurse's identification would help nail him for attempted rape; the Brooklyn...
Revealing Statement. On the arrest of Robles, D.A. Hogan finally issued a 1,400-word statement clearing Whitmore of the Wylie-Hoffert murders, though not of the Brooklyn murder, which is not in Hogan's jurisdiction. One of Hogan's assistants declared: "I am positive that the police prepared the confession for Whitmore just as his lawyers charged." And he added: "If this had not been a celebrated case, if this case hadn't got the tremendous publicity, if this was what we so-called professionals call a run-of-the-mill murder, Whitmore might well have...