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Clear Deception. Portraying the paint-spattered shorts as "heavily stained with blood" seemed to Justice Stewart a clear attempt to deceive the jurors. But the Illinois Bar committee insists that the prosecutors were merely following the expert view of a state chemist. His pretrial analysis, says the committee, indicated that there was blood of the victim's type on the shorts. The fact that the shorts were also paint-stained, the committee insists, was quite immaterial. The defense would still have had to explain away the blood...
...District Judge Francis J.W. Ford '04, who will preside, ruled at pretrial hearings that "the legality of the Vietnam war is not a relevant issue in this case." Ford...
...guidelines. Worried newsmen will be pleased. The committee, headed by U.S. Judge Irving Kaufman, agreed with the A.B.A. that lawyers and court officials should not be permitted to reveal any but a few basic, spare facts. But unlike the A.B.A., the Kaufman group is against barring newsmen from pretrial hearings and portions of the trial not heard by the jury. And it opposes the A.B.A. suggestion that newsmen be held in contempt if they willfully publish material designed to affect the outcome of a trial. Such a course, says the Kaufman committee, would be "both unwise and poses serious constitutional...
...nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid coincided with final exams. The campus radio station called the state's antimarijuana laws unjust and obsolete, while students circulated a petition saying "I, too, have smoked marijuana." A faculty resolution deplored the police's tactics...
...abroad raised every conceivable medical, moral and legal argument against restriction of the drug. The state, with eight experts of its own, waged an equally impressive counteroffensive. The stage was a pretrial hearing for two college dropouts accused of possession of the drug with intent to sell. Last week, after consideration of the case for three months, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro upheld the laws. In a 31 -page opinion that even pot lovers would have to admire for restraint and thoughtfulness, Judge Tauro carefully explained his conclusions...