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...James V. Baker of Lowell House has been elected First Class Marshal...
Last week's Supreme Judicial Court decisions have vast implications for law enforcement in the Commonwealth. In declaring the "abroad in the nighttime" statute unconstitutional, Associate Justice John V. Spalding '20, author of the opinion, wrote that "Suspicion, which is an inadequate ground for arrest is no more satisfactory as a basis for punishment." Similarly Spalding noted that "The use of the vagabond charge rather than a charge of theft or attempted theft suggests an absence of probable cause and the consequent evasion of traditional constitutional safeguards that results when suspicion, which admits of no predictable boundaries, is the basis...
...eight candidates who received the highest number of votes in the preliminary election for the Class Marshals of 1968 held last Thursday are James V. Baker of Lowell House, Alan D. Bersin (no picture) of Kirkland House, Donald J. Chiofaro (no picture) of Krikland House, John P. Garrity of Eliot House, Paul T. Gibson of Adams House, Tirachai Kambhu of Kirkland House, Neal P. Katz of Lowell House, and Robert P. Marshall Jr. of Eliot House...
Warren's deep involvement in the court's major cases began almost immediately after he ascended the bench on October 5, 1953. His first big test was Brown v. Board of Education, the school-desegregation case. It was quickly apparent to him that a majority of the court was going to strike down the separate-but-equal rule, which had been challenged in Kansas and three other states. Well aware that an order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences...
...judge whose concern and feeling for the individual tended to outweigh his reliance on specific precedents of the law. During oral arguments before the court, it became his custom to break into a lawyer's taut legalistic reasoning and ask: "Yes, but is it fair?" In Reynolds v. Sims, which in 1964 extended "one man, one vote" to both houses of state legislatures, he wrote for the majority: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. To the extent that a citizen's right to vote...