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...reversing Samuel Sheppard's murder conviction last June, the Supreme Court suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
...papers devoted only 3% of their space to crime news. Americans believe that publicity is vital to justice; the press has often dug up evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should hold pretrial hearings in private, grant continuances and changes of venue, select jurors from distant localities, sequester jurors to make sure that they do not read papers and magazines, listen to radio or watch TV-and readily grant mistrials...
...pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies in the cases they handle. Bailey specializes in violence-tinged sensation involving such up-from-nowhere types as Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Carl Coppolino and the Boston Strangler. Williams is more the seeker of equal justice for well-known but scandal-haunted clients...
...cases of Drs. Samuel Sheppard and Carl Coppolino, Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey sought to create so much doubt about the guilt of his clients that the juries could only find them innocent. In the case of Albert DeSalvo that ended last week in Boston, Bailey chose a completely opposite strategy. He set out to convince the jury that his client was the notorious Boston Strangler, and so guilty that he must be insane...
...wasn't the only one. National attention is focused on the small Cambridge courthouse where Bailey--attorney for Sam Sheppard and Carl Coppolino in sensational trials last year--intends to plead insanity for the 35-year old local handyman--named as the Boston Strangler in a best-selling book by Gerald Frank...