Word: posttrial
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...decision prompted a bitter dissent from Judge George MacKinnon, who pointed out that DeCoster's lawyer had not talked to the suggested witnesses because he believed DeCoster was guilty, a fact DeCoster in effect conceded during posttrial procedures. Reviewing Bazelon's liberal record, the conservative MacKinnon sounded an unusually personal note, saying that "practically all criminal convictions would be set aside" if Bazelon had his way. "What my colleague overlooks is that the public has some right to have the guilty convicted." Colleague Bazelon may also have neglected to consider fully the increasingly conservative view of the Supreme...
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