Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why the highway patrol last year caught a record 3,500 speeders...
...Alan Williams fired a hail of legal flak at Florida's aerial constables by refusing to prosecute one John C. Winslow Jr., charged with speeding over a bridge-causeway between Tampa and St. Petersburg. The prosecutor declared that he had no other choice because a state statute limits arrests without warrant to offenses committed in the arresting officer's presence. "I'm not criticizing the use of an airplane," explained Williams, "but a police officer [on the ground] who hasn't observed a man committing a misdemeanor can't arrest...
...appeals court ruled that Dallas's Judge Joe B. Brown had made a serious error in the original trial by allowing jurors to hear testimony that Ruby, at least ten minutes after his arrest, had admitted he had planned to kill Oswald. Because of the delay, because Ruby's words were not taken as a written statement, and because he had not been warned of his right to remain silent, the testimony was inadmissible under Texas law. The court also found that Judge Brown's refusal to grant a change of venue from Dallas was in itself...
...contempt, the A.B.A. proposals would forbid police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement on the accused's prior criminal record or make public other information that might influence the outcome of his trial. The blackout would cover the entire period from arrest to verdict-a period that sometimes lasts for years...
Most editors are convinced that jurors rarely recall pretrial publicity, since trials usually occur long after arrest. As for the trial itself, Houston's canny Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman is all for complete trial (though not pretrial) publicity on the ground that news slanted against his client is sure to rouse jury sympathy. Foreman even favors televised trials: "The accused has a constitutional right to have the breaks on public opinion," he says. Atlanta Criminal Lawyer Pierre Howard argues that trial judges are already fully empowered to safeguard trials, for example, by granting changes of venue. "If a judge...