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Overdue & Overborne. It is the question of how to raise state procedures to this standard that has baffled the Supreme Court. The Fifth Amendment was long thought not to apply to states at all. Only one state (Michigan) has adopted Mallory, and though nearly all the others have "prompt arraignment...
It may not seem particularly courageous to produce a play so hard to ruin, but courage isn't the best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde...
Denounce the Dead. Right or wrong, his clients pay for their freedom. Not long ago, Foreman pocketed $200,000 for winning Houston Oil Heiress Cecil Blaffer Hudson a record divorce settlement of $6,500,000. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value. He now owns more...
An ornate edifice studded with columns and fire escapes, the Driskill was built for another age. Reporters grumble about its rattling plumbing, roaring air conditioners and lack of a swimming pool. They also complain that the hotel, which is often overcrowded, continually shifts their briefing room. And most of the...
"I had rather smell Honolulu at sun set," he said, "than the old police courtroom in San Francisco." He kept his eye unawed, describing the mourning for a deceased royal princess as an occasion when native women writhe "to a weird howling which it would be rather complimentary to call...