Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...right (i.e., to refuse to answer incriminating questions) and then, out of fear that the right may be exercised, to deny most citizens effective access to the information necessary to its exercise. This is what the reporters have proposed and why I am opposed to their Code. Alan M. Dershowitz Assistant Professor...
According to Alan M Dershowitz, assistant professor at the Law School, who opposes the code, "It still weights the law to guarantee the constitutional right against self-incrimination only to the rich and the knowledgeable...
...average ignorant, criminal. Dershowitz said, does not know enough to keep silent when he is faced with persistent questioning by the police. The proposed code does any that within the four hour period, "persistent questioning" must cease if the accused wishes to see a lawyer, but Dershowitz pointed out that lawyers are not always available...
...Dershowitz called for the establishment of a pool of state-employed lawyers to be on call at all police stations. This would insure, he said, that all defendents would have immediate access to counsel, regardless of ability...