Miranda' lawyer talks to seminar
By GARY BURGE
An attorney who argued the Miranda case before the Supreme Court told lawmen attending the sixth annual Seminar in Burglaries and Larcenies last night that the Miranda ruling "should be followed until it hurts."
Duane R. Nedrid, editor and published of The Criminal Law—1967, told officers, "Whatever its message is, you are not following it. You are not using the ruling, you are using idiot cards."
Nedrud used the example of the television program "Dragetet," in which "Jack Webb says to the suspect, 'You have the right to remain silent, you have a right to counsel,' and all the time he just reads from an idiot card and then goes ahead and interrogates the suspect the old-fashioned way.
OFFICERS SHOULD obey the righ to an attorney provided by the Miranda ruling, Nedrud said, instead of "doing their job the old-fashioned way."
French riot against Cong
PARIS —(UPI)— Rightwing students rioted on the Left Bank against a pro-Viet Cong rally Tuesday night, hurling a Molotov cocktail and burning Russian flags.
Truckloads of caped police reinforcements threw the r'oters back from the Palais de la Mutualite where 500 leftwing students were whooping it up for the Vietnamese Communists inside.
BUT OTHER BANDS of the rightwingers raced through Paris streets. One group of about 30 attacked the building housing the Communist North Vietnamese delegation to Paris.
They hurled a Molotov cocktail The fuel-filled bottle burst but burned little.
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"I know you, I believe in your cause," the former county attorney said. "Why are you doing this? You're doing it to protect the public."
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If the rules are good, Nedrud said, "and I don't think they are, we must follow them and prove they do not work. It may cost lives, but it is the American way.
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"JUDGES FORGET—even Earl Warren was a district attorney, and he forgot that crimes are not solved by fingerprints, spectrographs or lie detector machines. I dare say no one here in this room has used fingerprints found on a gun to get a man convicted of murder."
Part of the problem concerned with the Miranda ruling, Nedrud said, was that confessions obtained without using Miranda are not usable in court. Secondary evidence gained from interrogation performed without the rights granted by the Supreme Court is also not usable.
"But let's follow Miranda until it hurts," Nedrud said. "Maybe it makes law enforcement look sick to the public, but let's document the things that happen. And then show the public why you cannot solve the case."
Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 10, 1967