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...matter that the fellow is under indictment for conspiracy, fraud, theft and tax evasion. Some of the folks in Ocean City, Md., think he'd make a dandy mayor, being such a famous local innkeeper and all. But, said Bobby Baker, 37, bustling around his ocean-side Carousel Motel, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I've got more problems than I can say grace over." Lyndon Johnson's former protege is awfully civic-minded, though. He thinks the Federal Government, for example, ought to develop nearby Assateague Island into "a major recreation center." Baker...
...days, Dr. Phillips plied the child with weird substances, including massive doses of desiccated ox bile and extract of beef eye. Four months later, Linda was dead of cancer. When Dr. Phillips submitted a bill for $739, the Eppings charged him with grand theft by false pretenses. Appalled at what he viewed as the first recorded "murder by words," the prosecutor switched the grand-theft charge to murder on the ground that Phillips caused a death while committing a felony (defrauding the Eppings). After a three-week trial, the jury convicted the doctor of second-degree murder...
...trial judge instructed the jury that a person who commits a felony is automatically liable for any death occurring in the course of that felony. So far, so good. But in California, the felony-murder rule applies only to felonies that are themselves "inherently dangerous to life." And grand theft, the felony charged against Dr. Phillips, is no such inherently dangerous crime. As a result, the high court was duty bound to reverse the conviction...
...pending cases lend urgency to Fortas' fears. In 1957 Robert A. Miller, 16, was picked up for auto theft in Seattle, summarily sent to an adult court and given a ten-year sentence. Now 25, and still in prison, Miller argues that he was denied due process and equal protection of the laws. Last month, acting as his own counsel, Miller won a crucial round: the Supreme Court agreed to review his case-the first state juvenile proceeding to reach the nation's highest tribunal...
Hayes cited crime statistics that showed Cambridge had a 1964-65 increase in aggravated assaults from 38 to 37, in breaking and entering incidents from 876 to 950, and in auto theft from 1379 to 1696. During the same time, however, at least two major categories had decreased; incidents of larceny over $50 declined from 797 to 742, and there was a 50 per cent decrease in murders, from...