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Judges Too. Had the decision been made retroactive the court might well have declared that Maryland has done nothing legal in its courtrooms for 98 years. But even without retroactivity, the decision brought to a halt every current criminal case in the entire state. Did it also void every current indictment issued by grand juries that had been forced to swear their belief in God? On Oct. 21, the court said yes in the case of a 16-year-old Seventh-day Adventist charged with rape-thus tossing 3,000 cases back for reindictment, 1,000 of them for retrial...
...lawyer, Amsterdam graduated from Haverford College summa cum laude in 1957, determined "to learn everything in the world." He pursued a graduate degree in art history at Bryn Mawr while he went to Penn law school, stood No. 1 in his class, edited the law review and sharpened the "void for vagueness" doctrine (meaning failure to specify an offense) that has since invalidated many an unjust Southern...
...since Rhodesia can expect financial support from racist South Africa, the effects of economic sanctions would be slow in making themselves felt. Still worse, France (which has picked up the South African arms trade dropped by Britain and the U.S.) and Japan appear eager to enter into the commercial void...
...nine-year rap at hard labor. This occurred in 1958-one year after Miss Mapp's offense. But Linkletter's greatest misfortune was that his conviction became final 15 months before the Supreme Court's Mapp decision. Nonetheless, he appealed on the ground that Mapp should void his conviction...
...Zones of Privacy." What roiled the court, however, was the question of whether to void a law based on the power of every state to regulate public morals. Speaking for the court, Justice William O. Douglas asserted that "we do not sit as a superlegislature," playing God with noxious laws. But to Douglas, himself thrice married, Connecticut's law collided with an overriding right-privacy in marriage. In a judicial sonnet, Douglas extolled marriage as "a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . an association for as noble...