Word: colorados
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Sound & Salutary. For 172 years, noted Griswold, most state police acted as if they never heard of the Fourth Amendment ban against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Most of them never even used search warrants. In 1949, the court tolerantly ruled (Wolf v. Colorado) that states could enforce the Fourth Amendment as they saw fit. For example, they did not necessarily have to exclude illegally seized evidence (despite the rule to that effect in federal courts since 1914). Yet the states so abused even Wolf that in 1961 the court finally applied the "exclusionary rule" to all states (Mapp v. Ohio...
...share both the burden and the joy. The conversion success of the Mormons (a 7.7% growth rate last year) and the Southern Baptists (374,418 baptisms in 1964) may be due partly to their custom of spawning churchlets as rapidly as possible. Says Dr. Glen E. Braswell of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, which has organized 100 new churches in the past ten years: "Where the American Baptists may have one large church, we will have four or five or a dozen in the same community...
...front of the , one at a time, and repeated three times each, "I'm from Kentucky," or "I'm from Colorado," or I'm from whatever other esoteric state Benzoni could think...
...Colorado requires local police to file state reports on all drunken drivers. To avoid that technicality, Greenwood's cops allegedly ordered motorists to get out of their cars, then charged them with being "drunk in a public place," a tactic yielding fines of up to $300 without the state's being the wiser. Couples found necking or simply talking in parked cars were also ticketed for being "nude above the waist" or "nude below the waist"-noncrimes that earned speedy payoffs from embarrassed victims...
...G.O.P. minority on the Senate Education Subcommittee had signed a statement saying: "This important and complex piece of legislation is to pass this body without a dot or comma changed, this by fiat from the Chief Executive." Republicans sent up amendment after amendment; all were voted down. Finally, as Colorado's Senator Peter Dominick stood at his desk shouting, "I for one resent the whole procedure," the education bill was passed by a vote...