Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed from hour to hour. According to one, a single unnamed army general from the North had launched a coup "to bring an end to gangsterism and disorder." The premiers of both the Northern and Western regions were reported assassinated, and Sir Abubakar was said to be under house arrest...
...code's supporters hope that it might lend to legislative action on pro-arraignment procedures -- either through state law - including such matters as search, seizure, arrest, questioning, bail, the right to detain, and confessions -- is now determined by individual court cases...
...patrolmen's answer was that Proctor was injured when he resisted arrest--in other words, that four officers were unable to take Proctor into custody without beating him severely...
Perhaps the police had reasonable grounds to believe that Smith's guests were equally suspect-but what about the prosecutor? In court last week, after Smith and his roommate pleaded guilty, his guests finally heard Prosecutor Arthur Morin announce, 45 days after their arrest, that he was dropping the case against them. "There were reasonable grounds for arrest," Morin said, "but not sufficient evidence for a primafacie case. None of the stuff was exposed so you could impute knowledge to the defendants...
...rare tropical ailment called leishmaniasis, in which protozoa from the bite of a sandfly enter the bloodstream and attack the liver and spleen. As a rule, few people die of the disease if they are properly treated, but in Marguerite Higgins' case, the doctors were unable to arrest it. Last week, at 45, she died...