Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignored the urgent threat to law and order in favor of abstract constitutional principles. Law-enforcement officers are almost unanimous in deploring a series of decisions that seem to them to be aimed at "coddling criminals" and "handcuffing the police." The court's rulings outlawing accepted methods of arrest and interrogation, protests Chicago Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, are simply "devices for excluding the truth from criminal trials." Many legal scholars, while conceding that the court has redressed some longstanding abuses, are concerned about the enormous problems of readjustment it has posed for police and prosecutors...
Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, arrest and detention are the most crucial phases of his entire case. In the intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the aspects of a star chamber. "The trial," observes one jurist, "is too often merely a review of that interrogation." Even if the defendant later recants a confession in court, it is one man's oath against those of three or four detectives. A distinguished federal judge said recently...
Many implications of the Supreme Court's decisions have yet to be resolved. The Gideon ruling raised an infinitely complex question: At what precise moment after his arrest is a suspect entitled to counsel? For federal defendants, this issue has been solved. In Mallory v. U.S. (1957), the Supreme Court emphasized that anyone under federal arrest must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before a U.S. commissioner for instruction on his rights to silence and counsel; admissions obtained during an excessive delay must be excluded. The 1964 Criminal Justice Act requires as well that all indigents must be assigned lawyers...
...students, Uchenna C. Nwoosu '64 and Olufemi Okoraummu '63, at the manager's request. The case against the two was later dismissed were arrested May 24, 1964, when they refused to leave the restaurant because they had not been allowed by Cambridge police to make a telephone call within an hour of their arrest, as required by Massachusetts...
...Bella and-he thought-a personal foe of Boumedienne. Still aggrieved by a public bawling out by Ben Bella, Zbiri exposed the plot to Boumedienne, who then directed Zbiri, Minister of Economics Bachir Boumaza and Major Draia, commander of the national security units charged with protecting the President, to arrest Ben Bella. Though they captured him at 3 in the morning, Boumedienne's men took no chances of a rescue by Ben Bella partisans. They hustled their prisoner aboard a Russian-built torpedo boat, landed him at a small town west of the capital, drove to a nearby...