Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of cases have been pending in local and federal district courts for years. In the crush, prosecutors and magistrates are tempted to bypass the judicial process by dismissing many cases wholesale. Snowed under by the work load, harried judges seldom have the time to learn what they should about the man in the dock. Sentences are handed down to fit the crime, not the defendant...
...scores of faculty and students for trying to desegregate local public accommodations. To keep the demonstrators quiet, Solicitor (Prosecutor) Thomas Cooper used a ploy of keeping them in a kind of legal limbo by indefinitely postponing their trials. Last week the Supreme Court voided the ploy, and in the process made history: for the first time, the court extended the Sixth Amendment right of speedy trial to all American courts...
...voiding the nolle prosequi last week, the Supreme Court simply con tinued its corporating" recent the trend of Constitution's gradually Bill "in of Rights in the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment, which is binding on states. But what is speedy trial? While a few states require trial anywhere from two to six months after indictment, fed eral courts require only no "unnecessary delay," a phrase that sometimes allows delays of several years. And who is entitled to speedy trial? In federal and most state courts, the current answer...
...Peoria proceedings were dragging more slowly than was really necessary. In the heavily publicized fraud trial of Influence Peddler Bobby Baker in January, it took only one day to impanel a jury. Federal Judge Oliver Gasch said, "I see no reason why jury selection should be the slowest process in the American system of justice." The process is much swifter in federal courts, because judges-not attorneys-usually question prospective jurors. But even without the built-in difficulties of digging up unprejudiced jurors for Speck, the Peoria selection was destined by Illinois state law to be a seemingly endless process...
...universities as a whole are in the middle of an industrial revolution.... Higher education, from being a cottage industry, is becoming a large-scale mass-production process. Students are in danger of coming to regard themselves as a new kind of intellectual proletariat, with a new sense of grievance...