Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...week the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, better known as the Maryknoll Fathers, issued a statement: "At the present moment, Communist prisons hold two Maryknoll bishops, seven Maryknoll priests, one Maryknoll brother, three Maryknoll sisters, and four Chinese priests from Maryknoll dioceses. Scores of others are under house arrest. Still others have been evicted from their missions...
...Henryetta, Okla., Leland Gourley, publisher of the Henryetta Daily Free-Lance, was knocked down by an irate subscriber who objected to a Free-Lance story on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter for speeding. Publisher Gourley's good-natured editorial comment: "Who wants to interfere with an American's right to take a poke at the editor...
...protection) is a Mexican legal confection with elements of habeas corpus, stay of execution and injunction, all rolled into one. Anyone who feels that he has been or is about to be the victim of unjust police or court action may apply for an amparo. By its terms, no arrest may be made or judgment executed in a specific case until the court issuing the amparo has had a chance to review the case and decide whether the agency involved is acting within the law. Its great advantage from the lawbreaker's point of view is that the huge...
...authorities to get around the right of amparo is to carry out a sabadazo, a surprise arrest after Saturday noon, when all government offices, including the courts, are closed. But all arrests cannot wait till a weekend, and besides, sabadazos are considered unsportsmanlike. This week the Mexican Senate was putting the final touches on a bill, sponsored by President Miguel Alemán, to take some of the obvious kinks out of the amparo system...