Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those who resort to civil disobedience such as the petitioners were engaged in ... cannot and should not escape arrest and prosecution. Civil disobedience by 'civil rights workers' in the form of 'going limp' and lying or marching in the streets or upon the sidewalks, or marching around the city hall while night court was in session, singing 'freedom' songs, or taking to the streets to do their parading and picketing in lieu of using the sidewalks, while failing to make any application to city authorities for a parade permit, is still a violation...
Exaggerated Claims. Fortas was also asked about his views on the running legal controversy over the rights of criminal suspects after arrest (see THE LAW). Fortas declined, of course, to indicate how he might vote as a Supreme Court Justice. But he did say that "adequate opportunity by police" to question suspects "is absolutely essential to law enforcement." Still, the accused must be "brought before a magistrate as soon as possible." Said Fortas: "The great problem is where to draw the line. I could never subscribe to the theory that because a man is poor the scales of justice should...
Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the "poor Negro citizen" of such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...
...depth and importance of the friendship was shown in another way last October. When Walter Jenkins, President Johnson's longtime friend and aide, was arrested on a morals charge. it was to Fortas that Jenkins first turned for help. Fortas, along with Fellow Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, then tried to get Washington newspaper editors to hold off breaking the story of Jenkins' arrest...
...angry court order last week, Judge New blasted Editor Neal's comments as "disdainful, despicable, scur rilous and contemptuous." Nor did the order stop there: it sent the sheriff hustling to Neal's office to arrest him for criminal contempt of court - punishable in Indiana by up to three months' imprisonment and a $500 fine. Haling Neal to his courtroom, where four mounted animal heads gaze down impassively on the accused, Judge New set bail at a whopping...