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...Chicago law professor, "imposes excessive costs on the criminal-justice system." It takes "limitless patience with irrationality" to tolerate the fact that "where there have been two wrongs, the defendant's and the officer's, both will go free." Another problem, says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the District of Columbia Circuit, is that "every defense lawyer feels obliged to make a suppression motion in search-and-seizure cases." Wilkey reports that 22% of the criminal cases in his court required analysis of such claims, a process that seriously bogged down the system. Says...
...Counsellor Edwin Meese, Deputy Secretary of State William Clark. Others predict that he will select an academic like Yale's Robert Bork or Chicago's Philip Kurland. The nation's lower courts offer Reagan such conservatives as Dallin Oaks of the Utah Supreme Court and Malcolm Wilkey, an old friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger's who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...hotel worker had hurried up to stop the flow, the preoccupied pianist rushed off to his performance, then, next morning, left with scarcely an apology for the $900 worth of damage. "We've written to his agency asking if they have insurance," says Hotel Roanoke General Manager Kenneth Wilkey. "If they haven't, well, we'll pick up the bill. He played a great concert...
...With two of the judges disqualifying themselves, the court was unanimous in upholding its jurisdiction over the case. But two judges, George MacKinnon and Malcolm Wilkey, both Nixon appointees, supported the President's refusal to release the tapes...
Said Judge Malcolm Wilkey: "To put the theoretical situation and possibilities in terms of 'absolute' privilege sounds somewhat terrifying until one realizes that this is exactly the way matters have been for 184 years of our history, and the republic still stands...