Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Problem. The New Jersey court apparently does not go along with Harvard's Dean Griswold and others who favor use of the contempt power to shut up talkative policemen. Superior officers should deal with improper statements that "constitute conduct unbecoming a police officer," said the court. As for inquisitive newsmen, the court added that nothing in its order "proscribes the reporting of the evidence as it is introduced before the jury by the state and the defendant during the course of the trial...
...cell to gutter before their final trip to the morgue. "It is hard to imagine a drearier example of the futile use of penal sanctions," says New York's Chief City Magistrate John M. Murtagh. In New York, at least, the courts demand proof of actual disorderly conduct and the police thus arrest only about 15,000 drunks a year...
...such advanced states as Illinois and New York, the admission trend is nonetheless toward maximum medical control. Hospital judges in Illinois now work so closely with medical advisers that, in general, they decide only whether a committal involves bias or unethical conduct. Boasts one Chicago judge: "This is the only court where the defendant always wins. If he is released, it means he is well. If he is committed, it is for his own good...
Albert L. Maher '63-2 and 16 other persons found guilty of disorderly conduct in a demonstration near Times Square this summer will be sentenced today in New York City. They face a maximum penalty of six months in prison...
...disorderly conduct charge grows out of a demonstration held Aug. 8 in Duffy Square to protest United States involvement in the war in Vietnam. Policemen on horseback broke up the demonstration, which Maker helped organize, soon after the first scheduled speaker had begun his address...