Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arrest. In a college town, where casual relationships with strangers are common, security precautions are of limited value. Sorority girls who live on Washtenaw Avenue, for example, still hitchhike rather than walk the two miles to campus, and campus bulletin boards abound with notices of girls seeking weekend rides. Once the fall session starts, campuses will again bustle with mixers, where young men and women traditionally seek to meet strangers. One coed said last week: "We're not talking about the creature from the Black Lagoon. We're talking about a smooth guy −or guys...
...change was long overdue. From 1965 to 1968, the number of prose cutions for fornication and lascivious carriage had dropped from 1,048 to 349, and the number of convictions from 790 to 169. "We hardly ever make a mor als arrest any more," said New Haven Police Chief James Ahern. Even so, the breadth of the old laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing...
They will appear this morning at the Boston Municipal Court. After the arrest yesterday, they were held in jail for over two hours and then were releases on $20 bail...
When he responded that he only wanted to talk to the people inside, he said, the police officer grasped him in an armlock and put him in a paddy wagon. Koblitz was kept in jail for two hours after his arrest and for three hours after his trial. He was then released from the Charles St. jail...
...trial on the burglary charge, but instead was retried-and convicted-on both charges. > In a California decision, the I. most important of the three, the court reversed the conviction of a numismatist named Ted Chimel, who was sentenced to prison in 1966 for stealing rare coins. When police arrested Chimel at his home in Santa Ana, Calif., they examined the premises without a search warrant and found some of the stolen coins. Such searches are common. Many police departments, seeking to avoid the necessity of justifying a search warrant before a judge, wait to arrest a suspect...