Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confessions were "essential" in 20.9% of Detroit's murder cases; in 1965, with warnings, Piersante's men actually got more confessions, and yet they were considered "essential" in only 9.3% of murder cases -all because of sharper sleuthing before arrest...
Highest Evidence. The hope is that such questions will lead to voluntary confessions, which have always been highly valued in U.S. courts. Whether it is the spontaneous blurt, the "threshold" confession immediately after the crime or the arrest ("Officer, I just killed my wife"), or the eventual uncoerced admission made by a suspect, the voluntary confession usually needs no corroboration for conviction. It is "the highest form of evidence," the legal analogue of the religious confession, although it may lead to execution rather than absolution...
...territory. In federal jurisdiction, the FBI routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel; if a federal suspect talks, the prosecution must prove that he "intelligently and knowingly" waived his rights. Moreover, the Supreme Court's 1957 Mallory rule bars prolonged federal interrogation. On arrest, a federal defendant must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before the nearest U.S. commissioner, who reiterates his rights and furnishes a lawyer if the suspect cannot afford one. Admissions obtained during excessive delays are excluded...
...Abdul Salam Aref (see MILESTONES). In Yemen, a pro-Nasser Republican leader was shot down by an assassin. But Nasser's biggest trouble occurred right at home, and it was caused by the army, which is normally considered the strongest supporter of his regime. The government announced the arrest of 20 top officers on charges of plotting a coup. The word in Cairo was variously that the officers were at loggerheads with Nasser about his Yemen policy or had been caught in smuggling and corruption, which Nasser finds even more embarrassing than a coup attempt...
...detectives, however, weren't going to believe his story easily. In fact, they were about to arrest the grad student as an accomplice...