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...time and expense of a trial, I will let you off with a light sentence." The offer comes from a judge. The second party to the bargain is a nervous defendant accused of a crime, almost certain to be convicted, and tempted to "cop a plea." The prac tice is one of long standing. And it has advantages for the public as well as the accused: it clears crowded dockets and sometimes extracts information about other crimes and other criminals as part of the bargain. But is it proper...
...past eleven years, the high court has decided in favor of the Justice Department in 45 out of 50 antitrust cases; for seven years, it has not ruled once against the Government's other arm of antimerger enforcement, the Federal Trade Com mission. In that record, remarked Jus tice Potter Stewart recently, one consistency stands out: "The Government always wins...
...would serve much the same purpose as the back-to-school movement that provides continuing legal education for practicing attorneys (TIME, March 25); it might also enlarge the nation's short supply of trial lawyers by whetting the appetites of fledglings who would otherwise pass up such prac tice in favor of other specialties...
Astounding Memory. In 1960, Jus tice Felix Frankfurter chose Amsterdam as his Supreme Court law clerk, the only non-Harvard man Frankfurter ever picked. It was a meeting of two omnivorous minds. "He was a man committed to the breadth of life," recalls Amsterdam, who edited Frankfurter's unpublished memoirs. "We got along marvelously...
...years). But Harlan's opposition to Court trends stems, in fact, from his belief that a judicial decision must be based on "uniformly applied legal principle, not on ad hoc notions of what is right or wrong in a particular case." The main difference between Jus tice Harlan and the rest of the court, says a former Harlan law clerk, is that he "is confined by what he considers his limited role, which is to apply statutes as he thinks Congress meant them...