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SAT., JULY 7,1379
UPHOLDS BUSING,
HOLDS PUBLIC HAS NO RIGHT TO ATTGHD CQOTPJALS
,, By pat Bryant
WASHINGTON,, D.C.
;mie U." Supreme .Court"
- handed down key ded
r 'dons this week that may
; be remembered for some
tune. The nation's top
court backed school bus
sing .plans for two Ohio
Stcmes, affirmed a lower
i 'court's ruling that
'members of the public
rhave no constitutional
; irlght to attend criminal
). trials, struck down a
-Massachusetts law requir
ing a parental consent for
lion, and refused to hear
challenges by the AFL
CIQ to President Carter's
so-called anti-inflation
program
Busing Upheld '
Upholding sweeping
Federal busing orders in
Dayton and Columbus
Ohio, the court dispelled
widespread beliefs that its
course was a retrenchment
from a committment to
end segregation in Nor
thern School systems.
The court reaffirmed
prior holdings that if a
school board can be
shown to have segregated
in a substantial portion of
its system intentionally
then the rest of the system
is - presumed to " be
, segregated. , "
Associated Justice
Byron White, writing for
court's majority, asserted
a school board has the
"affirmative duty" to
eliminate the effects of
past discrimination even if
it no longer discriminates.
"Whatever the board's,
current purpose," Justice
White wrote in the Colum
bus case, "it knowingly
continued its failure to
-eliminate the conse-;
quences of its past intert
tionalfy , segregative
policies.", ! .
. The 7-2 and 54 votes on
the Columbus and Dayton
" cases cleared the way for a
plan that would involve
busing 37,000 pupils! in
Columbus and leave intact
Dayton's : three-year old
plan. White reactionaries
have already announced
they will obstruct ; the
Dayton segregation order.
No Constitutional
Right For Public Trials
The Supreme Court was ;
closely divided, 5-4, .when
it ruled that members of
the public have "no con
stitutional right "to attend
criminal trials, y , ?
Writing the majority
opinion, Justice Potter
Stewart ruled that the
sixth .amendment
; guarantee ." to a "public
trail" is for the benefit of
the accused alone.
The ruling affirmed a
ruling of the New York
Court of Appeals which
had upheld the power Of a
trial judge to close, a pre
trial hearing if he found a
"reasonable probability"
that pre-trial i publicity
would hurt, the defendants
chance for a fair trial.
. The majority court's
decision written by Justice
Potter Stewart made.no
requirement that a judge
..' make a preliminary fin-?
ding that an open pro
ceeding will be harmful to
the defendant. Further,
the court's majority opi-1
nion , indicates that all .
criminal trials may be
closed if the defense, pro
secution and judge all
agree. ;' , .
Civil rights : leaders
blasted the ruling as a
retrenchment from public,
trials. Lawyers and
members of the media
were also upset over the
ruling..- '
Durham attorney
George Brown, a criminal
J awyer, expressed
: widespread belief that the
ruling would make, it dif
ficult for defendants in"
controversial cases to ob
tain fair trials.
"A lot - of. times it
(public attendance at .
criminal , trials) has an ef-.
feet upon a jury if they see
a crowd supporting a par
ticular defendant in a,
criminal case, as opposed
from being isolated," said
Brown, "it's kind of like
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; the defendant going to
' court ' without a fami
ly.. .Sometimes it. makes
the jury at think twice
before , rendering a deci
sion," Brown continued.
, "Fiopefully;:. they would
search their consciences
and look at the evidence a
little more closely because
the people are going to be
scrutinizing their decision
if it seems that :: the
evidence does not support
their verdict. ::.
Trials that he mention
ed as controversial ' in
which attendance made a
difference were; the
Joanne Little and Angela
Davjs trials.
Parental Consent Law
On Abortion Struck
; Down
Through an 8-1 ruling
the Supreme Court
declared unconstitutional
a Massachusetts law which
required unmarried minor
girls to get the approval of
their parants or a judge
before being able to ob
tain a legal abortion.
The Massachusetts law
was a blanket consent law
which the justices in
dicated might be constitu
tional if it created excep
tions for the mature
minors. .
Justice Powell wrote,
"Every minor must have
the opportunity if she so
desires to go directly to
a court without first con
sulting or notifying her
parents."
DR. GEORGE ,
MCCU Prof Gots
Post Doctoral
Followship
Dr. Charles R. George,
professor of biology , at
North Carolina Central
Vniversity, has been
awarded a National In
stitutes of Health Faculty t
Fellowship under its
Minority Access to
Research Careers Pro
gram (MARC), to conduct
post-doctoral research in
neuropharmacology at the
Duke University Medical
Center, ' beginning
September 1, 1979. His
sponsor will be Dr. James
N. Davis, staff neurologist
at Duke. The research will
investigate neurotransmis
sion in insect brains and
nerves, with the hope that
it might serve as a model
for the study of human
systems. -
Dr. George is a
graduate of . North
Carolina A&T University,
received his Master's
degree at Oklahoma State
University, and the Ph.D.
degree at Cornell Univer
sity, Ithaca, New York.
' Since joining the NCCU
faculty in 1970, -Dr.
George has been actively
engaged in biological
research. He has been the
recipient of research
grants from the National
Institutes of Health's
Minority Biological Sup
port Program, the North
Carolina Science and
Technology Committee,
.and the North Carolina
Academy of Science. His
research findings : have
been published in
American, English and
French scientific journals.
1 Dr. George is the son of
Noah and the late Mrs.
Lucile George of Faison,
N.C. He is married to the
former " Miss Willia J.
Robinson of Dunn and
they are the parents of two
daughters, Sonia Valita
and Yvette Andree.
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