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Absorbed Rights. In the case that produced last week's landmark decision, Texas had refused to uphold that right. Accused of a $375 holdup, Bob Granville Pointer was haled before a preliminary hearing in Houston. He had no lawyer and did not cross-examine his alleged victim, who then moved to California and did not appear at Pointer's trial. Vainly invoking the confrontation clause, Pointer was convicted on the transcript of the absent victim's untested testimony. Because he could have cross-examined at the preliminary hearing, the state's highest court upheld his conviction...
...Supreme Court might well have reversed Pointer's conviction almost routinely; as far back as 1899, the court held that confrontation is fundamental to fair trial, a concept embodied in the "due process" guarantee that the 14th Amendment now imposes on the states. But Pointer's appeal revived a question that has long roiled the court: Does the 14th Amendment "incorporate" the specifics of the Bill of Rights and impose them on the states? If so, states must obey the full letter of the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause...
...flatly in 1904: "The Sixth Amendment does not apply to proceedings in state criminal courts." But in the light of Gideon, Malloy and other "absorption" cases, ruled Black, statements "generally declaring that the Sixth Amendment does not apply to states can no longer be regarded as law." After reversing Pointer's conviction on these grounds, the court emphasized its new doctrine by doing exactly the same in another confrontation case in Alabama...
...third quarter, the Cliffie sextet suddenly got hot. Penetrating the tight Wheaton two-two zone defense. Miss Querbridge drove the baseline for a two-pointer, then fed teammate Policy Quick for a score which put Radcliffe only three points behind. Miss Querbridge's lay up in the wanning moments of the quarter made...
...Saturdays are not so bad; the cruising sniffer can drive all the way downtown without seeing the needle push above 40 p.p.m. During weekday rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor, "but in that interchange area...