In all respects I agree with your forceful editorial, in which you champion the cause of giving a suspect his rights, and wherein you write, "The police should be required to bend over backward to ensure that suspects--certainly murder suspects--are treated fairly."
This is in response to your editorial (March 12), "Justice Denied," wherein the author vented his spleen over the U.S.
It seems strange that justice, like beauty, is perceived only in the eyes of the beholder. The U.S.
Five minutes before hearing Lone Justice perform, I stood in the midst of an overcrowded club
Your editorial again illustrates much of what is wrong with today's criminal justice system.
The uncoerced confession of a murderer who waived his right to an attorney is not a denial of justice.
A cover plus 3 1/2 pages for a 20-year-old singer?
Forget about Madonna!
Your appalling conclusion that "The way to prevent police abuse is to throw out the conviction" betrays the same insensitivity to the victim of a crime that has undermined the public's confidence in our judicial process.
For the sake of her fans and her ex-bandmates, Maria McKee should drop the name Lone Justice
The United States is on the verge of deporting an accused Nazi collaborator and war criminal to the Soviet Union under circumstances that are as deeply troubling as they are unusual.
By the way, what ever happened to Hilburn's last discovery; anybody remember Joe Ely?
Thanks for the excellent cover story on Lone Justice.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the Providence (R.I.)
I appreciated Richard Eder's take (Ex Libris, Book Review, March 9) on the U.S. poet laureateship.
Since this letter will offend roughly 99.612% of Calendar readers, or about 44.8 people, editors are strongly cautioned ("The Big Deal," by Robert Hilburn, Dec. 15).
Six justices of the U.S.
A man is sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing two pizzas (The Times, May 14th) Another man is sentenced to four years as one of a group of men who stole $4 million worth of oil.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner of the distinguished Robert Kirsch Award does due justice
system of justice itself changes, guaranteeing free speech, the right to assemble and other civil rights.