Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of how the university should maintain order at Berkeley-assuming that dialogue will not resolve all tensions-the report proposed that the chancellor should not get directly involved with administering campus discipline. Under the present system, it argued, the chancellor appears to be both prosecutor and judge, which inevitably makes him seem like the students' adversary. Instead, the committee suggested that a new set of campus regulations, subject to the chancellor's veto, should be drawn up by a rules committee representing faculty, students and administration. Violators would be brought to a judgment before a student-conduct...
...Isolated Charges. There are a number of obvious and not so obvious openings to the prosecutor. To begin with, he need only prove that the defendants knowingly agreed to commit a crime. In some states, he needs to prove nothing else. In others, and under federal law, he must prove that afterward at least one overt act in the direction of the crime was committed by at least one conspirator...
...behalf of three other arrested writers, read at his trial sections from the Soviet constitution guaranteeing "freedom of demonstrations and gatherings on the street." By way of contrast, he pointed out that in the U.S., the Supreme Court had assured the right of Communists to peaceful dissent. "What the prosecutor would like to hear from me, he won't hear," said Bukovsky. "There is no criminal act in my case. I absolutely do not repent." Nonetheless, the Soviet press reported that Bukovsky had pleaded guilty...
Though Bruce cannot be tried again on the murder charge, Criswell said he would appeal the ruling in order to challenge the judge's interpretation of the juvenile's rights. "It's the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen," said the angry prosecutor. "The boy hadn't even been arrested. And his father was there. This is ridiculous. It means we have open season on mothers up here." If Judge Lansden's barring of the confession is overruled, it will hardly make any difference to Bruce, who has been committed to a state mental hospital by his father...
...life before coming to the court. In all three major areas where the court has left its mark. Warren had previously taken opposite stands. During 23 years as deputy district attorney, then D.A. of Alameda County and attorney general of California, he was, as he puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts; it would have meant less power for his party...