Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
...Harvard Square, as the result of some 20 arrests in the last year, the bookies have wised up. They seldom write down a number or horse's name, or keep any other scrap of evidence which might be used against them. To make an arrest the police need only find a slip of paper in a suspect's pocket bearing at least a dozen numbers. Depending on the judge and the number of previous arrests, the defendant may get probation, a suspended sentence, a stiff fine ($50-$1000), or a jail sentence--sometimes coupled with another fine...
...telephone" system. This means that he either stands outside or sits inside the cafeteria with a pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere passing of money from a student or cab driver to him is not sufficient evidence for arrest; since he phones in the bets immediately, he need take no written record of the wager...
...Colucci's arrest should be a warning to the others," Stokes asserted last night. "They know who they...
...Court's most controversial decision so far was handed down February 21. By a 5-3 vote, the Justices upheld the right of Federal officers to search and seize property "in a limited area" without a warrant if the action is incidental to an arrest for which there are proper documents. Justice Frankfurter, in dissenting, claimed that such police action violated the fourth amendment. Frankfurter remarked that changes in Justices on the bench should not change the law--an allusion to Minton and Clark, both in the majority. Most of the Court's important votes, however, have not pointed...