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...phenomenon comparable to the effect of 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which led to the retrial and acquittal of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon and gave all defendants the right to counsel in state criminal trials. In Florida alone, 5,554 previously convicted prisoners have since petitioned for new trials, and 1,081 have already won their freedom...
That newspapers often try, and frequently decide, criminal cases well in advance of judicial process is a fact that even editors do not deny. This year a convicted wife-murderer, Dr. Sam Sheppard of Cleveland, was released for retrial after ten years in prison because a federal judge agreed with Sheppard's contention that Cleveland papers had so inflamed public opinion as to destroy all possibility of cool justice...
...have known during most of Green's smoking years that cigarettes can cause cancer. Later, after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida law subjects any product sold for public consumption to an "implied warranty" that it is not harmful, the Federal Court of Appeals ordered a retrial of the Green case...
Question of Numbers. When the retrial opened in Miami Federal District Court last month, Dr. Hastings had hopes of winning the first damage verdict in the history of the tobacco-cancer controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large...
...robbery case, that means the Crown v. Hinds. The libel suit involved different parties: Hinds v. Sparks, and only by coincidence was the robbery the key issue. Since it was the issue, however, Alfie managed to have himself found "innocent" in what laymen at least could view as a retrial. Whether he now deserves a pardon is up to Home Secretary Henry Brooke, who has a rare legal puzzle to solve...