Word: lumbard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning to burn their books? Thomas Lumbard...
...stinging dissent, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard argued that more than 99% of viewers would consider 491 purely a pitch to prurient interest. Speaking for the majority, though, Judge Leonard Moore saw "redeeming social importance" in the fact that 491 professes "constructive ideas" even while it purveys seamy sex. Moreover, he noted a vital effect of last term's Supreme Court decision in Mishkin v. New York, which apparently discarded the "average person" test of prurient interest. Now the yardstick is "the probable recipient group"-which seems to mean that judges must determine whom the material is aimed...
Speaking for the court, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard declared that the U.S. Constitution does not automatically command a warning to suspects. Lumbard called it "highly undesirable to lay down a rule which would deprive police of the opportunity to question suspects and to use such statements as are found to have been given voluntarily and to have been procured fairly." Said Lumbard: "In our country a most valuable right of law-abiding citizens, who make up the great majority of our people, is the right to be protected against lawbreakers and criminal interference with their liberty and property...
...most ambitious of all efforts at reform is the American Bar Association's three-year project to offer state legislatures "minimum standards" of criminal procedure. Started last year, under Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the undertaking is being researched by 80 of the country's top police officers, judges and lawyers. One A.B.A. committee seeks ways to get lawyers for indigents in all 3,100 of the nation's counties; more than two years after Gideon, there has been virtually no progress in 2,900 counties handling...
...remedy the situation, Judge Lumbard would require criminal-trial training for admission to the bar. And he would try to keep lawyers interested in criminal cases by allowing them occasionally to prosecute as well as to defend-a long-admired practice that has helped keep many outstanding British barristers active in criminal...