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...center, however, the patient and four of his relatives or friends must be in formed of his right to a jury hearing. Any one of them can then demand it. If the patient is committed, he need no longer fear being held indefinitely with no legal recourse except a writ of habeas corpus. Now his case must be reviewed by a court at intervals of six months, one year, and every two years thereafter. Moreover, the new law provides a fact-finding state mental-health service with trained lawyers and case workers, who will not only tell judges more about...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...
...then decided the idea was unwise. The judge also decreed that all arrested juveniles be held in the city jail without bond for as long as two weeks pending a hearing. The Ledger called that policy "terrible." Indeed, it led one 17-year-old boy to file a federal writ of habeas corpus with U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin in nearby Indianapolis. For technical reasons, Dillin could not spring the boy, but he ordered New to set bond at $100 and called New's rules "ridiculous." They may be, but they are still in effect...
...DeEr ReedER: ONE of The AmAZIN FACKS abouT the RITEr of this bOOK is he nose a lil SUMPthin $$$$$$ ABOut The SUBjeck he writ ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny...
...into jail. After a few months Arraes became a sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across the bay from Rio. His jailers simply ignored the order, as well as a brusque telegram from the supreme court president directing the generals to "accept the decision just as it was communicated...