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favor of the amendment? .

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DELEGATE BARRICK: Mr. Chairman, I have had a

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lot of misgivings about this particular subject matter.

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I was a State's Attorney and came down here in '59 to

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introduce a bill in the Senate to take this provision out

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of our Constitution. That bill failed. I suspect the

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reason it failed was That there were too many defense

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attorneys in the legislature at the time. I believe now

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that with all the provisions that the Supreme Court has

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given to the criminals, all the advantages that he now

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receives through the recent decisions of the Supreme Court,

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that I must agree with Judge Sherbow in that we ought

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to think about the people.

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I think this is imperative now that we do take

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this out, and it will be for the benefit of the people

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and maybe help to balance the scale as far as all the

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other decisions of the Supreme Court passed recently.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Anyone wish to speak against the

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amendment?

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Delegate Storm?

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DELEGATE STORM: That little example I was