European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes january supreme court ruling gives prosecutors wide authority to use threats to induce plea bargaining Washington is the supreme court wednesday give prosecutors sweep ing new authority to try to induce suspects in plea thus avoiding splitting the court said that a prosecutor May try to coax a suspect into plead ing guilty to one offence by threatening him or her with a More serious so Long As the suspect understands that he or she is free to accept or reject the bar gain offer by the the prosecutor has wide discretion in the often he the court the in an opinion written by Justice Potter makes Clear that the prosecutor must have the Legal authority to bring the More serious charge before he May threaten to file it if the suspect insists upon pleading not for the entire plea bargaining process went on with the supreme court paying no Public attention to the process is out in the and has the supreme courts Bles the justices expressed their approval in general of the that it is one of us More important parti or the criminal Justice it to not stewarts Opin Ion for prosecutors to seek actively to induce suspects to plead acceptance of the Basic legitimacy of plea bargaining necessarily implies reject Ion of any notion that a guilty plea is involuntary in a constitutional sense simply because it is the end result of the bargain ing the court Toree of the dissenting justices complained that the ruling will have the effect of encouraging prosecutors to be Tive when they engage in plea written by Mackow it a prosecutor is frustrated in his at tempt to get the suspect to go along with the he now will be free to act Vin dictively1 Fay holding Back a More serious charge and then threatening Ilia suspect the dissenters Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that dissent for himself and justices William break a and tour Good Marshall Justice Newte f Powell filed a rate laying that he thought us individual suspect in the test Case before the court had had his constitutional rights Vio lated to the specific lest Case the test Case involved a Paul Louis who was accused of forging a stolen Check for in Fayette under that he stood to receive a prison sentence of two to 190 Yean if con the prosecutor offered to recommend a five year sentence if Hayes would plead guilty to if Hayes did not go along with that the prosecutor Tom be would then be a habitual if he was convicted of he would get a mandatory life prison Hayes refused to plead went to trial and was charged with being both forger and habitual after his he got a life Orison the sixth court of appeals ruled in 197b thai a lays rights bad been the supreme court overturned that Deci Sion in another decision the court spelled out for the first time a constitutional theory that provides major Protection for the right to eel Justice marshalls opinion for himself and four of the other justices a majority said that us right to marry is so Funda mental in american society that state Laws or regulations that would interfere with it must Tje overturned unless they Are absolutely necessary to support a valid Public the court had never before gone that far to surround marriage with constitutional the ruling struck Down a Wisconsin Law which requires that a Man who is the father of a child not in his custody obtain a courts approval before he can get Mortn order to get such under the state the Man must prove that he is providing financial support for his child gun smokes miss Kitty tells of bout with cancer api miss Kitty sur Vived hundreds of episodes of Frontier Vio Lence in but none came close to the real life terror Amanda Blake endured with the tumor was in her Mouth and die operation to remove it Cut her i worried about my said the 41 year old i worried about never being Able to talk again i made my if in had been i would just dropout of no one would Blake noticed a sore under her Tongue late in for three she a voided seeing a doctor about she said in an interview with the Phoenix first i had All these said who is Lemi retired As an actress but is Active in die humane i Felt i let everyone maybe i was using the commitments As an excuse marvelous Complete Nervon then there was Christmas and new i was uptight and a Complete Ner Vous i told nobody 1 kept every thing i even got a Call to do a television motion picture but i turned it Down saying it want for she finally had a doctor examine the lesion in january i could feel it in my Bones that the tests would come Back she the doctor confirmed that it was a malignant it was still a she it drains you feel As though you have no no she was referred to the Anderson system cancer Center tumor Institute in Alando a cancer confirmed the malignancy but said the tumor was not in an eight hour be Cut her Throat from ear to removed the Bottom half of the Tongue and the floor of Portugal living costs up Lisbon Lupe Portugal 1977 Cost of living excluding jumped an average of 274 percent Over the National Institute of statics Amanda Buke the thigh tissue was transplanted to her followup visits have shown no More recuperation and therapy included leaching herself to speak again with her rebuilt there Are still words i have trouble such As she sometimes i get a slight whistle on but that getting better too Ballantyne said excessive smoking contributed to the so Blake gave in she also has become an advocate for regu Lar cancer if 1 had to do it again id go in for a checkup she fear and not knowing Are the worst Flynt buys his third newspaper Atlanta a Hustler Magazine owner Larry Flynt is buying the Atlanta an alternative and has hired state Julian Bond As a con it was announced the newspaper Purchase is Fly nos third in the past month he has also bought the los Angeles free also an after native and the Plains the paper in president Carters Hometown Hinnard editor and publisher of the said he would retain control of the paper As editor in brawn described the paper As an alter native newspaper in the Moid of the Vil Lage voice in new York cites Greenwich Village i think its part of your typical City Magazine that youre seeing All Over the we of some hard some we cover the cultural Neil hot Flynt nor Brown would discuss the Purchase weve reached an agreement in Prin Ciple Brown said in an interview has been there has been no free on bail from a Cincinnati conviction for publishing obscenity and engaging in organized crime by publishing faces charges of to him in i about to tots ago and they had Senous discussions sunday at an a Tanta hotel which led to the he said he had been trying to get Bond to wite a column for the Gazette prior to Ita discussions with reached on the floor of the state his title would be senior editor and i would be an occasional cont by and would continue to do so if allowed to the court said that Taw seriously Inmar feres with the right to marry foursome Indi but not for the court it violates the constitutional guarantee int jaws will be applied three other justices went along with the fireman majority but did so for Dif Ferent Justice William Rehnquist was the Lone to a sounder los Angeles a two Early models of Bob Brawns Amigo sonic rat repellent device were banned by the Feder Al environmental Protection Agency one As Long u six months ago Brown said tuesday that the current Model is effective in repelling Keith attorney for the Pas regional office in san mid Mara manufacturing the registered name of Browns Pine Valley firm also known As Amiga manufacturing was ordered to Stop Sale of its initial Amig Model in june and of the am go phase1 Model cud this Takada said the orders were issued a san Francisco after tests performed at Epa laboratories in indicated Ibe devices were mis branded rat pm lob the Federal to Denti de act gives the government the Power to ban the Sale of Nus branded net Lent Takada said the january ban on the phase i c100 Model came after the Pas regional office in Kansas City Slop Sawder to a local distributor of Tbs based on test Bob chief of the pesticides 0v vision of the surveillance and analysis Divi Sion of the Epa san Francisco said the tests showed the product to be Ine Fec the a Small purports to drive off rats by overloading their sensory systems with sound frequencies of far higher than the human ear can Kaneshiro said the boxes tested dont even make the rats the devices Bob said in a Telephone interview hmm new York that the two bans affect Wex Earty models which bad been withdrawn from the Market a year or two Brown who says sales of his device have made him a millionaire expressed Confidence that the new Repe Uera will prove effective if properly the currently available Amigo phase Model 75c had seen proven by Harry Muter m held tests at the Unive Retty of col left of procedure used by the Epa was not even Brown said the tests were done on Albino rats which Are when there in cages there not even alerted to and it does ii work on Albino that s for Epa officials in san Francisco declined to comment on the testing procedure Brown said the Hatbox Busi Ness is booming after recent newspaper re ports on his been people asking about filming rights to make a i Bette the kind of Strain be in West people have in rats and rodents and
