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...good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides to four European cities, the South of France and the Greek Islands. Another, less poetic but more of a guide, is H. V. Morton's lively historical tour of Spain, Italy, Britain and Ireland...
...confessions. For decades, that system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
Unseen Son. It was just such a swearing contest that created Escobedo v. Illinois, but in that case the nation's highest tribunal upheld the defendant -something that still awes Danny Escobedo, now 28 and long familiar with police stations. At his height, Danny hardly seems a threat to any healthy policewoman; yet he has managed to get himself picked up twice for "investigation" and arrested five times on charges ranging from assault to murder, including two arrests since his release for packing a pistol and selling barbiturates. So far, he has beaten every...
...state (Michigan) has adopted Mallory, and though nearly all the others have "prompt arraignment" laws, state judges widely tolerate incommunicado police interrogation lasting as long as three days. The Supreme Court did not even attack the use of coerced confession in state courts until the 1936 case of Brown v. Mississippi, when it voided the "voluntary" murder confessions of three Negroes who had talked only after being beaten with steel-studded belts for five days...
...Supreme Court started moving inexorably toward a solution in Gideon v. Wainwright, which discarded "totality" as the test of whether indigents were entitled to free counsel in state criminal trials. By imposing on the states the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, Gideon set an objective standard: all indigents get free counsel in the courtroom...