Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEATER On Broadway MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Hoibrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. As penetrating in spirit as it is physically uncanny, this performance is an extraordinary dramatic re-creation of one of Americana's keenest humorists...
...commands the government to prove guilt by independent evidence, not by coercing proof out of the defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination in a trial that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation -the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict him at his trial...
...felony cases without question. In May 1964, Massiah v. U.S. moved the right to counsel back to the pretrial stage of indictment. In June of that year, Malloy v. Hogan made the Fifth Amendment binding on states. A week later Escobedo reversed Danny's conviction after he had spent 4½ years in prison-and moved the Constitution, and lawyers, into the police station. The court made it clear that criminal prosecutions actually start in the squeal room. To bar legal aid at that crucial stage, it ruled, "would make the trial no more than an appeal from...
...prior case: "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." But, said Goldberg, "this argument cuts two ways. The fact that many confessions are obtained during this period points up its critical nature as a stage when legal aid and advice are surely needed. Our Constitution, unlike some, strikes the balance in favor of the right of the accused to be advised by his lawyer of his privilege against selfincrimination...
Largo. Occasionally Horowitz finds himself seized with a sickening stage fright. He asks the manager of one concert hall to tell the audience that Mr. Horowitz cannot appear. Tell them yourself, says the miffed manager. Horowitz tries: he goes to center stage, looks out over the blob of faces, opens his mouth-and then dashes for the safe harbor of his grand piano...