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this privilege to a trial court judge to exercise his
priviledge to protect the public. Not that the defendant
is guilty as charged, but the possibility of the offender
pending trial will make other offenses against public
order.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Despite the fact this issue
was debated this morning, I feel the questions may be very
much confused, partly because of the posture in which the
matter came before this committee as a whole. The Conroit-
ttee on Personal Rights, on the other hand, had many hours
to discuss and hear witnesses, all the various aspects of
what is a very complex, but extremely constitutional prob-
\ lem.
Now, we have acted without any amendment or ques"
tion or debate to grant to an accused all kind of rights
when he is tried for the offense, he is entitled to counsel,
he is entitled to be confronted with his accusers and we
even put in a little amendment yesterday to make sure they
were under oath when they confronted him.
This area, I say, is far more important to the