Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, the Ivies have followed the ECAC procedure, which requires every Canadian player to sign an affidavit with three stipulations...
Justices Hugo Black and Abe Fortas, who are both regarded as among the court's libertarians, strongly opposed the decision. Fortas argued that the FBI agent's affidavit and the informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents...
...typical precinct in the 24th Ward, he reported, the voting was dominated by one man, the Democratic precinct captain. "A nod from the precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus...
...conditions in South Africa's prisons, re lated mainly by an artist and onetime air force lieutenant named Harold Strachan. During three years as a political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks from an electrotherapy machine. The Mail collected an affidavit from Strachan, and sworn corroborating statements from two warders and two ex-prison ers, to back up a sensational series of stories and an editorial demand for a government inquiry into prison conditions...
...witness who recognized Ray from FBI photographs as resembling a man he spotted in the rooming house during the afternoon of April 4. Charles Quitman Stephens, 46, in an apartment next to the bathroom, heard the shot. "I went out and saw a man running," Stephens said in an affidavit. "Although I didn't get a long look, I think it was the same man I saw earlier...