Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's Supreme Judicial Court decisions have vast implications for law enforcement in the Commonwealth. In declaring the "abroad in the nighttime" statute unconstitutional, Associate Justice John V. Spalding '20, author of the opinion, wrote that "Suspicion, which is an inadequate ground for arrest is no more satisfactory as a basis for punishment." Similarly Spalding noted that "The use of the vagabond charge rather than a charge of theft or attempted theft suggests an absence of probable cause and the consequent evasion of traditional constitutional safeguards that results when suspicion, which admits of no predictable boundaries, is the basis...
Sanctuary Against Arrest...
Financial support would probably consist of funds for legal aid. A decision to provide sanctuary would be a stronger measure, committing the faculty to shelter the resisters in Andover Chapel when federal agents come to arrest them. According to lawyers for the resisters, the eight are almost surely to be prosecuted...
Reagan's explosive reaction magnified what might have been a relatively minor incident. By contrast with scandal involving White House Aide Walter Jenkins in 1964, there was no arrest in the present instance-nor for that matter were there any of the national-security implications raised by the Jenkins affair, since a Governor's office is unlikely to have any national secrets worth worrying about. The upshot was to cast doubt both on Reagan's credibility and his tactical skill in dealing with the difficult situations that inevitably confront a major league politician...
...week's end, Hammell and the two other teen-agers were under arrest on charges of being accessories to murder. Weinstein, too, was in jail after a Philadelphia theatrical agent recognized him in Manhattan's Times Square and pointed him out to a policeman. After trying to run away, Weinstein surrendered without a struggle. Meanwhile, detectives were searching for other possible victims in the cellars of Weinstein's house and shop...