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Kathleen and Norval White, an autoworker, understandably cannot believe that their good Republican son is a willing refugee in North Korea. "I have to fight to save my son," Mrs. White says. "If they can capture one, they can do it to a hundred, and soon they'll be on the West Coast." On the mantel sit two photographs of her G.I. Joey. "They're breaking him down," insists Mr. White, at once hopeful and horrified that he is right. "My son's still resisting. I know he is." Perhaps Father knows best. But not even...
...plea believe that the standard is inconsistent and impossible to apply fairly. If mental defects are exculpatory, asks Dr. Abraham Halpern, director of psychiatry at United Hospital in Port Chester, N.Y., why shouldn't heredity, poverty and cultural deprivations also be? Others, like University of Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris, contend that jurors cannot make much sense of the tortured language in the M'Naghten and Brawner rules. "Even the so-called experts don't understand them," says Morris. Instead of acquitting defendants with mental problems, some scholars would prefer to have a judge convene a post...
...short, acknowledged Clarke, the Alaska ban did not change the status quo all that much, and the merits of what it did change are open to debate. But the Alaska experience does underscore a blunt reality of criminal justice. As Chicago Law School Dean Norval Morris puts it, "Most defendants plead guilty because they are guilty." And if that is so, say Morris and others, perhaps the real question is not so much whether plea bargaining deprives the accused of his right to a jury trial, but whether he gets a fair and rational sentence...
...prison terms, from prosecutors to judges to parole boards. Federal Judge Marvin Frankel, an articulate advocate of sentencing review, tells of a colleague who bragged about adding a fifth year to a convict's sentence simply because he spoke disrespectfully in court. Says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris, another opponent of indeterminate sentences: "Present practices are arbitrary, discriminatory and unprincipled...
While the rule was not exactly defined, it suggested that providing a passive opportunity for crime was O.K., while actively fomenting the crime probably was not. "That line between catching criminals and provoking crime was a simple principle," says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris. "Now it has been blurred." Three months ago, the Burger court held by a 5-to-3 vote that if a person has a "predisposition" to commit a crime, it will be almost impossible for him to claim entrapment successfully, no matter how much inducement to the crime the Government has provided. Under...