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Beikman is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing next Monday. Court sources say Beikman's lawyer has obtained a writ requiring two temple members to appear as witnesses on Tuesday...
Likewise with the holy writ on court reform. Contrary to public perception, most criminals end up getting caught; the courts, perhaps inexplicably, do a decent job of freeing the innocent and convicting and punishing the guilty. Such reforms as repeal of the exclusionary rule, prohibition of plea bargaining, mandatory prison terms, or standardized sentences are either harmful or irrelevant. What is needed is more attention to the appearance of justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public...
Some things are better left unadapted and unanimated, and one of them seems to be J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The trilogy-saga does not cry out for amplification; it runs well past half a million words, every one of them revered as holy writ by Tolkien's vast army of fans. What is more, each one of these devotees has strong opinions on what Middle-earth and its inhabitants look like. Show them a hobbit that is not their idea of a hobbit, then run for cover...
They come closest to it at the very beginning. As the light go up, cast members in rags spill out over the stage area and into the audience, assaulting, abusing, fondling, pickpocketing and beating each other. Here is Brecht's London writ small, and the streetsinger (Kermit Norris) croons the familiar "Mack the Knife" over it. But for some reason his costume has no tatters, and his delivery of the ballad is prim and affected. So much for anarchy and dissipation...
...judge, but not to a court when a man's life is at stake? James Goodale, the Times's counsel, sharply criticized Lacey for making the book an issue when it was "absolutely, totally irrelevant" to the reason why Farber's lawyers had asked for the writ-simply, to get Farber released until a court decides the merits of his claim. Nonetheless, fearing a subpoena for the book and yet another contempt citation if Farber refused to turn over his manuscript, the lawyers hastily withdrew their habeas petition...