The Nation - News from June 23, 1985
Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III called for speedy appeals in capital punishment cases to “remove frivolous obstacles” and unnecessary delays for condemned convicts. Meese, in an interview published in the American Bar Assn. Journal, said he supports the death penalty as well as accelerated appeals of death sentences. Meese also renewed his call for restricting or abolishing the “exclusionary rule,” which bars the use of illegally seized evidence in court.
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