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...four that the Supreme Court considered together. But the other three defendants seem to be little better off than their more famous compatriot. One, Roy Allen Stewart, will be retried in Los Angeles on murder-robbery charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence was 30 to 60 years. And in Sacramento, Calif., Bank Robber Carl Calvin Westover was found guilty again and sentenced last week...
...decision he was about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant's basic constitutional right to the assistance of a lawyer and the freedom from any compulsion...
...ancient and honorable origins. And where it has been enforced, it has not hampered justice. Indeed, the very cases that were before the court, said Warren, testified to the general "overstatement of the need for confessions." Standard police investigations had turned up damning evidence against each defendant. "Miranda, Vignera and Westover were identified by eyewitnesses. Marked bills . from the bank robbed were found in Westover's car. Articles stolen from the victim as well as from several other robbery victims were found in Stewart's home...
...before admitting that he robbed but did not kill the woman. He was sentenced to death for felony-murder. He did not request counsel, claims he confessed to free his wife. The California Supreme Court said police should have given him a silence warning, reversed his conviction. ¶Michael Vignera, 31, got a 30-to 60-year rap for holding up a Brooklyn dress shop in 1961. Vignera was fingered by a confederate, linked to stolen goods, and identified by his victims. He confessed after about twelve hours. To clinch the police case, he was then grilled far beyond "focus...
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