Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, turned down yesterday an opportunity to make a landmark decision towards the legalization of marijuana...
...separate opinion, three Justices- Potter Stewart, Byron White and William Brennan-noted that because the agents' warrant authorized them to confiscate only gambling equipment, Stanley had also been the victim of an illegal search. The rest of the court, in an opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, struck down Stanley's conviction for other, broader reasons. The constitutional right to "receive information and ideas," wrote Marshall, takes on an "added dimension" in the privacy of a man's home. "If the First Amendment means anything," Marshall continued, "it means that a state has no business telling...
...informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents for it. White's proposal may be seconded by the court's law-and-order-conscious critics, who are likely to look on the decision as a new irritant...
...colleagues. William Douglas played poker with Roosevelt and advised Kennedy on a wide range of matters, including the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev and the Cuban missile crisis. Chief Justice Earl Warren served President Johnson by leaving the bench to head the investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. Thurgood Marshall joined Vice President Humphrey's supporting entourage on a good-will tour of Africa last winter...
...justify its ruling, the court turned to the medical profession. Expert defense testimony by a psychiatrist, explained Justice Thurgood Marshall, included the statement that Powell's first drink on each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled to continue drinking once he started. Marshall also worried about what would happen if the court forbade the jailing of drunks. "The picture of the law's 'revolving door' of arrest, incarceration, release and rearrest is not a pretty one," he admitted, but he could see no satisfactory...