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Constitutional Waiver. Although the decision dealt with conduct at a Chicago trial 13 years ago, the court clearly was also mindful of recent disruptions in another Chicago courtroom-Judge Julius Hoffman's. The decision appeared to vindicate some of Hoffman's responses to the angry Chicago Eight, including the binding and gagging of Black Panther Bobby Scale...
...various reports that led to this action, it was made clear that projects such as NASA's would probably be granted a waiver," Warren Goodell, Columbia vice-president for administration, said...
...brought in for questioning is in a "crisis-laden situation" and must make quick decisions that may affect his freedom for years. Often, he may decide to cooperate rather than provoke. Any confession obtained from such a man could hardly be said to result from a voluntary waiver of his rights, as required by Miranda...
...week began with a slapstick squabble over a bill to waive the requirement that radio and television grant equal time to all candidates. The waiver would have cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with a big lead to preserve, does not. In their maneuvering over the bill the Democrats staged a lock-in in the House, and the Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each...
...alone"; in light of that, the judges were persuaded that the Sixth Amendment trial-by-jury guarantee applies to juveniles in federal courts. They also objected on the basis that the law involves a "rock or whirlpool" choice. "Where a reward is held out to an individual for the waiver of a constitutional right," wrote Judge Harold Tyler, "or a greater threat posed for choosing to assert it, any waiver may be said to have been extracted in an impermissible manner." The judges ruled unconstitutional that part of the act that imposes a "Hobson's choice." Instead...