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Between them, the President, McNamara and the J.C.S. have chosen a battery of U.S. defense positions that may well affect the safety of the world for decades. McNamara says that revolutionary changes have been "driven into the bedrock" of the nation's mili tary base...
Dartmouth students do not agree. According to a poll by The Dartmouth, the daily campus newspaper, 69 per cent are opposed to the change on the grounds that it would not alleviate "mark grubbing," that it would lower motivation, and that it would affect admission to graduate school...
...getting a new trial next month.) Out went New York-style procedure in 15 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and six of the ten federal districts. But to two of the court's dissenters, including Justice Hugo Black, the decision posed a new danger: it would affect hundreds of state and federal convicts whose challenged confessions had been admitted under New York procedure. If the Jackson rule was retroactive, as it seemed to be, prisoners whose confessions proved to have been involuntary were entitled to complete new trials...
Such intrusion goes "beyond the limits of decency," said the judge, and Defendant Eastman could not avoid the suit by arguing lack of proof that anyone ever heard the bedroom sounds. The tort of intrusion does not require "publicity and communication to third persons, although this would affect the amount of the damages...
...criminal trials a year in Bexar County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think...