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...Sheppard's second trial for killing his wife was bound to be different from his first one twelve years ago. For one thing, Cleveland Judge Francis Tally reserved only a few seats for reporters as he went out of his way to prevent any repetition of the "prejudicial publicity" that had moved the Supreme Court to reverse Sheppard's conviction. But even if courtroom decorum was improved, how could Prosecutor John T. Corrigan be prevented from persuading a new jury to reach the same result? The answer had to come from Boston Lawyer F. Lee Bailey...
...Precisely, agrees Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who last week called the A.B.A. proposals "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy." Edwards, who once voted to reverse Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction in an opinion that foreshadowed the recent Supreme Court decision in the Sheppard case, is mainly worried that pretrial controls will leave defense lawyers "muzzled" and "prosecutions corrupted against the public interest." The real pressure, says Edwards, should be on trial judges to "make full...
...reversing Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction last spring, however, the Supreme Court suggested that the answer is for the bar and the police to button their own lips-thus silencing the key sources of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. Last week a long-awaited set of specifics for carrying out that proposal was issued by the American Bar Association's ten-member advisory committee on fair trial and free press, a distinguished body of lawyers and judges headed by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Beyond such guidelines, the committee is flatly against "expanded use of the contempt power against the news media or the enactment of statutory restrictions." For one thing, news media have recently shown "impressive" restraint. For another, the Sheppard decision clearly suggests that trial judges can and should combat inflammatory reporting by many other devices-holding pretrial hearings in private, granting continuances and changes of venue, selecting jurors from distant localities, sequestering jurors to make sure that they do not read the newspapers and readily ordering mistrials when they...
...Kerr, and the W.J.T. is still searching for a critic. The job was offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast Hearst's wry society columnist, Suzy Knickerbocker...