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...half the story. Equally vital is the quality of California's high court, which currently includes such able men as Justices Mathew O. Tobririer, Paul Peek and Raymond E. Peters. Most important of all is the brilliant legal mind of Gibson's successor, Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor, 65. Traynor, says Illinois' own distinguished Justice Walter V. Schaefer, is "the nation's No. 1 state judge...
Speaking for the California court in the Martinez-Aranda case, Chief Justice Roger Traynor took his cue from Jackson and reversed Aranda's conviction on the ground that a jury cannot "segregate evidence into separate intellectual boxes." In short, said Traynor, if A confesses that he committed criminal acts with B, the jury cannot "effectively ignore the inevitable conclusion that B has committed those same criminal acts with A." From now on, ruled Traynor, California courts must handle codefendant confessions according to new procedures...
...court that has been fiercely attacked as too civil-libertarian in everything from criminal cases to de facto school segregation, the arguments had a troublesome ring. Section 26 might indeed involve state action, but "the question is," mused Chief Justice Roger Traynor, "what's so wrong, about that action?" Traynor seemed to be looking to the difficult decision ahead as well as the involved arguments that he had just heard when he finally ended the debate with a sigh: "I don't know how you feel, Counsel, but I'm awfully tired...
...Triennial Coif Award ($1,000) is for legal writing "that evidences creative talent of the highest order." Selected by six leading legal lights, such as Justice Roger J. Traynor of the California Supreme Court, the first recipient is Duke University's shy, witty, brilliant Law Professor Brainerd Currie, 52, author of 1963's Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, a seminal, formidable tome that Currie characteristically dedicated "To My Wife, who has suffered more from these essays than any mere reader...
...Traynor has graduated, but Zwolak will lead a strong Wildcat squad in the defense of its team title. The top contenders are expected to be Michigan State, which has won the meet five of the last seven years, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. Heptagonals champion Cornell rates an outside chance...