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Criminal Government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could not have disagreed more strongly. Speaking for that unanimous court, Judge Simon Sobeloff (former U.S. Solicitor General) pointed out that the Baltimore police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI eventually nabbed them in New York.) Unlike Judge Thomsen, Sobeloff was unmoved by the cops' self-policing order. "The determination of what constitutes probable cause," he said, "is still left to the policeman...
Since the Redmonds were definitely not repeaters, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions "in the interests of justice." Last week the court assented in a brief, unsigned order. In a curt note, Justices Potter Stewart, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas added that they "would reverse this conviction, not because it violates the policy of the Justice Department, but because it violates the Constitution...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is a compulsively fascinating dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving and caustically humorous-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
When the time came for the vote, the M.P.s were released from party discipline to cast their ballots in accordance with their consciences. The result was a surprise setback for the party leaders: by 143 to 112, the M.P.s voted to retain the death penalty. Solicitor General Larry Fennel wept openly. It is now his task to review the cases of men under sentence of death, and to recommend who should live and who be executed...
Cronin agreed with Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden that 92 parking spaces are the number required by the city's zoning ordinance. But the argued, that Radcliffe is exempt from the ordinance, under state law, because it is using the land for educational purposes...