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University of Utah Professor Paul Cassell, presenting the arguments against Miranda, contends that the 1968 federal law supersedes the Supreme Court decision. The 1968 law, a Congressional reaction to outrage over the first Miranda decision, allows "voluntary" confessions to be used in court even if suspects had not been read their Miranda rights. The original ruling, he argues, was a "provisional, interim judgment" to allow Congress to consider other appropriate alternatives. However, even judges who have been critical of Miranda find that argument difficult to accept. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a conservative who has expressed distaste for the ruling...
...more than 50% in 1998. And 33% of American households are composed of two unmarried adults with no children, making this the most common type of "family." But not everyplace is encouraging this arrangement. Anti-cohabitation laws remain on the books in several states, including Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, where unmarried roommates were recently arrested...
...RESPECT ride will begin in an East Coast city--likely Washington D.C. or Virginia Beach--and continue through cities such as Columbus, Ohio; Chicago; St.Louis; Denver; Salt Lake City, Utah; Las Vegas and San Francisco...
...Little Book of Stupid Questions.) He went looking for a partner in neurosis and found Joshua Piven, 28. The two have much in common: both are Philadelphians who went to the University of Pennsylvania, and both survived a formative experience with crime. A decade ago, shortly after moving from Utah to Philadelphia, the amiable Borgenicht was conned out of $500. And while on vacation in Jamaica, Piven was chased by knife-wielding motorcyclists. They were after his gold signet class ring, and when he refused to hand it over, Piven says, they left...
BACK IT UP Daron Malmborg can keep his no-civic-vanity plates after all. Utah's division of motor vehicles had issued a recall, but after a couple of calls from the press found its sense of humor...