Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago law firm and found himself picked off a bar list to handle one of the most important confession cases in U.S. legal history-Escobedo v. Illinois. Last June the Supreme Court upheld Kroll's argument, ruling that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a suspect (see following story). Kroll got no fee, agreed to work entirely apart from his law-firm job. "Do it again?" he says. "I'll do one a week. It was the greatest experience I've ever had." > Chicago's Donald P. Moore...
...Supreme Court reversed Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder conviction because he had confessed after the police refused to let him see his lawyer, who was waiting at the station house. Rather vaguely, the court held that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect...
...Court has yet to clarify Escobedo with any new decision, some 27 lower courts have groped for the right interpretation. Last year the Illinois Supreme Court took the "hard" approach in People v. Hartgraves. It said that a confession is admissible even though the police do not advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence. Last January the California Supreme Court took the "soft" approach in People v. Dorado. It said that police failure to advise the suspect of those rights invalidates his confession even though he made no formal request for counsel...
...unanimously backed the "soft" approach in a decision binding on all courts in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The decision is apparently retroactive: convicted prisoners may now appeal on the ground that their rights were denied even though they confessed voluntarily. The court left police only one loophole: the suspect may "intelligently waive" his rights. Does this mean that he needs a lawyer to tell him what he is waiving? And if grilling now requires the physical presence of a lawyer, will he not obviously advise his client to remain silent? Possible result: no more valid confessions...
...know just what happened in the Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay fight any more than you. But like fight fans around the world-from bleary eyed London viewers to the guys in the bar around the corner--I suspect that something was not quite kosher in the sleepy little mill town of Lewiston...