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Specifically, the court overturned the "Hawkins Rule," a 1958 decision that gave a spouse on trial the right to veto the intention of the other spouse to offer incriminating evidence in court. This latest ruling concerned Otis Trammel Jr., a California man who in 1976 was convicted, partly on the testimony of his wife, of conspiring to import heroin. In the opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger explained that the old notions about married women having no separate legal identity had broken down "chip by chip," and that marriage was not what it used to be. When a spouse is willing...
...also allows spousal testimony only in the case of conversations that were not intended to be private (pillow talk is still protected), or when the husband or wife has actually witnessed criminal acts of the other. Moreover, the high bench is not really breaking new ground with the Trammel decision. Over the past several years, 26 states have gone at least as far as the new federal rule...
...Alan Trammel made it 3-0 for Detroit in the fourth with an infield dribbler that went past Remy for a two-run double. Tiger rookie Lou Whitaker touched Boston's freshman from Pawtucket, John LaRose, for a three-run homer in the sixth, and it was 6-0, Detroit...
...found the suggestion that the student should not be allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard, the vast majority of Harvard alumni, and myself...
...Buckley denies that these measures would abrogate academic freedom. He says that "nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy." There is where Buckley's "logically impregnable" position falls. For Buckley's conception of the basic nature of a "free economy" is just as much an orthodoxy as a party-line adherence to Communism. Adherence to Buckley's orthodoxy can trammel thinking quite as effectively as the "forces of socialism and atheism" which Buckley feared in his broadcast...