Word: arizona
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...into private homes, nor do they have to observe constitutional niceties like Miranda warnings. An 1873 Supreme Court decision held that bounty hunters may pursue a defendant "into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." Says Arizona lawyer Gary Klahr: "In Phoenix, it's harder now to repossess a car--you're supposed to alert the police first--than it is to repossess a human being...
After last week's killings, Chris Foote's family called for the Arizona legislature to rein in bounty hunters. A bill imposing licensing requirements and background checks for the profession is expected next session. Last year a Kansas City judge sentenced a bounty hunter to six months in jail for searching a private home after the occupant produced an ID showing he was not the man wanted. Texas requires bounty hunters to obtain arrest warrants and be accompanied by peace officers, security officers or licensed private investigators. Curbs have not come easily. Says Gene Newman, president of the Professional Bail...
Meeting fellow classmates posed the biggest challenge and, in retrospect, the best opportunity of any Orientation Week experience. It was a thrilling mixture of nervousness and excitement to meet scores of new people in nine days. ("Where from? " "Phoenix. " "Oh, I've been through Arizona before. " "What dorm? " "Hollis. " "Really? Do you know this guy Ray lives in Stoughton? " "What prospective major? " "Biochem. " "Sure! I took some physics in high school! ") Only weeks afterward did I realize that most of the people with whom I had the typical conversation would slowly drift out of my life, though even...
...preliminary assessment: very vulnerable. "The only question is when," says Arizona Republican SENATOR JON KYL, who pushed for the formation of the commission, which will deliver a secret report to the President in October. The panel's chairman, Robert Marsh, says radical groups like the Irish Republican Army are looking at ways to wage "economic terrorism," and computer assaults are already rampant. A hacker shut down computers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia last winter by sending in 30,000 E-mail messages. The Langley machines were paralyzed for six hours...
...Fife Symington hadn't announced his resignation yesterday, the same day he was convicted of lying to obtain millions in loans for a now-busted real estate empire. "Some people feel his mistakes as a businessman should be overlooked because he really was turning around this state," says TIME Arizona reporter Laura Laughlin. "The irony is that he had no business success ? he was broke, as we all found out later ? but he wasn't a bad governor...