Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The court upheld the trial judge's ruling. The nature of the statement, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was such that it carried indications of "reliability" and the possibility of its being shaken on cross-examination was "wholly unreal." Moreover, Stewart said that the testimony "was of peripheral significance at...
Crucial Fifth. Justice John Harlan did not agree that the evidence was "peripheral," but he did concur in upholding the conviction. He argued that exceptions to the hearsay rule should not be weighed against the Sixth Amendment confrontation right at all. Instead, he gave priority to the due process clauses...
Such logic showed the independence of the scholarly Harlan. Armed with a penetrating intellect, he has developed a craftsmanlike and rigorous judicial philosophy that often leads him to his conclusion by a route that differs from that of the other justices. In many cases, his crucial swing vote may well...
The unseen father of the film Where's Poppa? must have read Ralph Nader's latest report before he made his sons promise him on his deathbed that they would never put their mother in an old folks' home. For, as Nader made clear last week in...
Researched by a team of six student volunteers and a teacher who observed Washington, D.C., nursing homes and studied masses of state and federal documents, Nader's report is a passionate indictment of the industry that provides care to at least one million of the 20 million Americans over...