Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Prosecutor Hausner's taut account of the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann...
...single nude woman in poses that the Los Angeles prosecutor described as "invitations to sexual activity." After playing their parts, Candy and Lori became suspicious about Klor's plans for the films, and they called the cops. Three officers entered Klor's home under authority of an arrest warrant charging him with an overdue parking ticket, then asked to see his "lewd" films. Klor willingly displayed his motion pictures, but wisely stated: "These are not ready for distribution through the mail. They need to be edited...
...dissenting Judge John Van Voorhis protested that the policeman involved was only "allegedly" frisking for a weapon when he discovered a supply of heroin in the defendant's pockets. "Without probable cause," said Van Voorhis, "the frisk discovered the heroin, then the heroin served as a basis for arrest, which, in turn, was claimed to justify the search which disclosed it." Judge Van Voorhis insisted that a frisk should be tightly limited to its only legitimate purpose: "To discover and seize dangerous weapons." If it becomes "a general search of the person" in patent violation of the Fourth Amendment...
...American Civil Liberties Union plans to help appeal the Peters decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on stop-and-frisk. If the court takes the case, the key issue may well be whether a person stopped for questioning and frisking is actually under arrest-for it is only lawful arrest, with or without a warrant, that carries with it the right to make a search "incident" to that arrest. Without grounds for arrest, police cannot simply search a person and then use whatever evidence they happen to find. In short, a search cannot be justified...
...bypass this problem, many courts have simply declared that a stop is not an arrest and a frisk is not a search, thus enabling police to act on "reasonable suspicion" rather than the stricter standard of probable cause. All this seems to assume that an arrest begins only with some sort of formal announcement. By contrast, some courts view arrest as the first "actual restraint" that stops a person from doing whatever he pleases-a definition that may well bar searches made on mere "suspicion...