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...conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime," said Justice Potter Stewart, the underpants' "gruesomely emotional impact upon the jury was incalculable...
Moved by the court's angry words, the Illinois State Bar Association ordered a full-scale inquiry by its grievance committee. After nine months of probing into the prosecutors' conduct, the committee has rendered a verdict of its own. Its report not only clears Ramsey and Hayes of all wrongdoing, but also concludes that it was really the Supreme Court that "misapprehended the facts...
Also: Jon P. Perry; Charles S. Peskin; Joseph H. Pleck; Robert C. Pozen; John T. Ramsey; David C. Ray; Mark Reber; Frederic N. Ris; David A. Samuels; Richard Schoolman; Alan N. Schulman; Philip A. Schwartzkroin; John F. Seegal; P. Alfred Shapiro; Paul A. Shapiro; Steven J. C. Shea; Douglas R. Shier; Richard A. Shore; Jonathan E. Silver...
...went a form letter to one William R. Clark, a 40-year-old Government employee, asking him to report to his local IRS office. Clark showed up punctually and was hunched over his forms when a supervisor passed the cubicle-and did a double take. "Aren't you Ramsey Clark?" asked the flabbergasted IRS agent. "Yes," nodded the Attorney General of the United States, who then quietly turned back to his papers. The error, as it turned out, was in Clark's favor; he had paid too much in 1967 taxes, and collected a $500 refund from...
...President. Few of the hard-liners noted that in the confusion of a riot, police would have to be veritable Lone Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving...