Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner
MS/CU crime novelist ERLE STANLEY GARDNER (Earle Stanley Gardner) being interviewed by off-screen reporter: "I have written a book that is coming out around the 1st of the year titled Cops on Campus & Crime in the Streets in which I have tried to set forth some of the problems that the modern police are facing. We have simply got to get a better understanding of police work & a better foundation of respect for police if we're going to have any kind of law & order in the country. This business of having the police used in confrontations where dissidents stand on one side of the line & police on the other & they throw insults at the police, try to devil the police into what they can use for police brutality. It's something that's not good for law enforcement." MS writer Erle Stanley Gardner speaking: "I think that the courts should protect the rights of the accused person in court, but I don't think that they should protect those rights by going so far as to handicap the police in collecting evidence. Let the police collect the evidence. Then when it comes to the presentation in court, they should give the defense all the latitude in the world. I think we should have discovery in criminal cases as they do in court martials. The defense should know what evidence the law enforcement bodies have against the client & should know well enough in advance so that they can do something to contact witnesses."