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...principle generally forbids prosecutors to prove their case with evidence obtained illegally from a defendant. The court has long made an exception in cases in which the defendant takes the stand, by allowing the use of tainted evidence to attack his credibility. But last week the Justices refused to permit such evidence to impeach the credibility of a witness testifying in support of a Chicago murder defendant. The ruling left some experts scratching their heads and anticipating future criminal cases because the fifth and deciding vote came from Justice Byron White, normally one of the staunchest judicial critics...
Pierce said he favors a rollback of the temporary income tax increase approved by the Legislature in July, as well as fee and permit increases imposed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...fellow club members countered in a suit that the refusal violated the 1984 federal Equal Access Act. That measure forbids public secondary schools to discriminate against any student group on the basis of its "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if -- and this is an important if -- those same schools permit other "noncurriculum-related student groups" to meet on their premises during off-hours. The statute fails to define what is meant by noncurriculum related...
...meeting "will permit an examination of all the proposals advanced in recent weeks concerning Cambodia and a study of all means that might bring an end to armed conflicts on the ground," the ministry said. "It comes at a time when it appears possible to envisage an increased role for the United Nations in the settlement process...
...issue is the so-called "Difference Principle," the Rawlsian criterion for judging the fairness of economic institutions. A society governed by the Difference Principle will permit economic inequalities only to the extent that they benefit the worst-off members of society. Income and wealth must be redistributed to the poor from more advantaged citizens up to the point of diminishing returns--that is, until the harmful "supply-side" effects of heavy taxation begin to undermine the economic prospects of the lower classes themselves...