Word: greenhalgh
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Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...idea frightens me. Police would be more careless," says Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh, a former prosecutor; on behalf of the American Bar Association, he wrote a Gates brief supporting the existing rule. Notes University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "What are we asking here? Whether a police officer reasonably acted unreasonably? If they lower the standard any more, they'll reduce the rule to the vanishing point...