Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled to continue drinking once he started. Marshall also worried about what would happen if the court forbade the jailing of drunks. "The picture of the law's 'revolving door' of arrest, incarceration, release and rearrest is not a pretty one," he admitted, but he could see no satisfactory alternative. Even doctors critical of arresting drunks cannot agree on any treatment that would provide more of a cure than simple drying out in jail...
Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who is more concerned these days with pacifists than pacifiers, seemed openly to seek arrest in hopes that he could eventually test his crusade against the Viet Nam war before the Supreme Court. Last week at Boston's Federal District Court, he moved closer to that goal. An all-male jury pronounced Spock, 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and abet young men in evading the draft. Also found guilty: Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 44, Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber, 23, and Writer Mitchell Goodman, 44. The fifth member of "the Boston Five," Marcus...
...test was an effort to set up a standard less demanding than the "probable cause" required to justify an arrest. The court admitted that its test is not as precise as might be wished. But some indication of what is reasonable was given by the three cases that the court decided. In Cleveland, Detective Martin McFadden had watched two men walking back and forth and staring in the window of a store. On the assumption that they were casing the store for a robbery, Detective McFadden stopped them and frisked them. Both were carrying concealed guns and were convicted...
...tools, possession of which is a crime in New York. Because the court was satisfied that Officer Lasky had acted properly, the conviction that resulted was upheld. In fact, six of the Justices thought that the defendant's actions were suspicious enough to give probable cause for an arrest...
...case after another in which a man or woman had confronted him with some obscene gesture or lascivious remark. Senak admitted to Hersey that a "bad aspect" of his work was that he had never fallen in love with a girl before he joined the force. His arrest of some 175 prostitutes had given him, he said, "a sort of bad attitude toward women in general. I know all women aren't prostitutes, but I think subconsciously it affects me. I go out with a lot of real nice girls and I just can't seem...