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...case, the Supreme Court agreed. Danny had confessed to complicity in his brother-in-law's murder, but only after Chicago police had refused to let him see his lawyer, who was in the station house trying to see him.* Not only did the court void Danny's confession: it held that every arrested American is now entitled to consult his lawyer as soon as police investigation makes him a prime suspect...
Hypocrisy v. Disaster. In choosing these cases, the Supreme Court revealed Escobedo's potential dynamite: all but one of the confessions were apparently true and voluntary; most of the defendants probably could not have been convicted without their confessions. Yet the court is being asked to void all the confessions by reading into Escobedo a new standard: that police must warn all suspects at focus point that they need not talk, that anything they say may be held against them, and that they have a right to counsel, furnished by the state if necessary...
...seem particularly courageous to produce a play so hard to ruin, but courage isn't the best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...
...three ring circus." Party politics were placed second to building membership and raising money. Through a highly-successful speakers program Ross succeeded in doing both. But, according to one former executive the club became so dependent on Ross's personality that when his term was over he left a void that almost no one could have successfully filled...
...simply a sharpening of the senses. Things took on an extraordinary importance when they were high. "I became fascinated with objects. Where things began and ended, where they converged and came to an edge or a point, where there was a gap, a hole, a void, I seemed to be drawn to it and could stare at it for long periods of time." To many, colors became more vivid and jazz more intelligible...