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...that required considerable courage for a Southern Governor, McKeithen flew to Bogalusa to plead with Negro leaders for a 30-day cooling-off period. When he got there, an angry white man demanded: "Why don't you take the state police out of here?" Replied McKeithen: "We would-but about 500 or 600 people would be killed...
Even coerced confessions are by no means automatically excluded by the courts. State judges, who are mostly elected, are sometimes subject to strong public pressure to convict in crimes that shock the community. Conversely, the vast majority of criminal defendants plead guilty and waive trial in order to make things easier for themselves. Many prosecutors, anxious to build their conviction records, engage in "bargain justice," the practice of pressuring defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. Of some 12% who do stand trial, nearly all are convicted; only a handful ever succeed in having tainted evidence excluded...
...number of O.A.S. murders daily and risked inviting his own. When a picture he took of one O.A.S. murder made the papers, a man stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol on him. "I was not going to plead with him," Faas recalls. "I heard him cocking the pistol. I thought, 'Now I get it.' He fired twice, and zip, zip, a round went by each ear. Then he bought me another absinthe. 'Next time we kill...
...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
...legal jungle. Most Americans stand by after a car accident; most Mexicans bolt. And anyone involved can be jailed without bail until a non-judge traffic expert dictates a verdict. Mexicans also rely on the mordida (bribe) to pay off witnesses. Cautious Americans carry insurance covering legal aid-and plead innocent to any charge. Sample: failure to pay hotel bills, which may be a nonbailable crime. Conversely, suing hotels for personal injury is virtually impossible; required witnesses (hotel employees) would be fired if they talked...