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Likewise with the holy writ on court reform. Contrary to public perception, most criminals end up getting caught; the courts, perhaps inexplicably, do a decent job of freeing the innocent and convicting and punishing the guilty. Such reforms as repeal of the exclusionary rule, prohibition of plea bargaining, mandatory prison terms, or standardized sentences are either harmful or irrelevant. What is needed is more attention to the appearance of justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public...
...party regular, over Republican Senator Robert Griffin, a skillful parliamentarian and his party's Senate whip. At the same time, Michigan's voters stuck with an able Republican Governor, William Milliken, 56, despite a harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during the campaign: "It's a terrible thing to pander to people's fears." He finally won with 57% of the vote-his largest win in three elections...
...shaky Republican winner was Ohio's James Rhodes, 69, who has served nonconsecutively as Governor for a total of twelve years. Articulate, handsome Democratic Nominee Richard Celeste, 41, Ohio's Lieutenant Governor since 1974, threw Rhodes on the defensive by charging that the Governor had allowed the state's public schools to slip into near bankruptcy. Rhodes campaigned so hard that he had to rest during the closing days. In the end he won by only 49,109 votes out of 2,839,000 cast. He called this "a landslide," and in a sense it was. Four years ago Rhodes...
...York's incumbent Governor Hugh Carey, 59, with a scandal-free and creditable record as the state's chief executive, trailed his silver-haired Republican opponent, Perry Duryea, 57, until the final weeks of the campaign. Duryea then refused to disclose fully his personal finances and to make public his tax returns. While no improprieties were charged, Carey hit hard on the issue and found the electorate in no mood to tolerate secrecy in such matters...
...President's popularity. Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...