Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torture in inquisitorial proceedings. The current controversy over refusal to answer appears to revolve around the inferences to be drawn from such refusal. Obviously, an inference of possible guilt is reasonably drawn from such a refusal. One who refuses to answer is a "suspect," but he is not a "convict" subject to the full sanctions of the criminal law, because the issue as to guilt is not proved ... by silence alone. Our problem with Fifth Amendment invokers is: What should society do with "suspects"? Suspects should not hold positions of trust, but on the other hand, mere suspects should...
Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...
...Burr case, the Government attorneys argued that the Fifth Amendment could be properly invoked only when the answer to a question would, by itself, be enough to convict the witness of a crime. Said Marshall...
...ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60-year history of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, largest (membership: 2,061,004) group of Lutheran synods in the U.S. The charge: "Holding, teaching and preaching doctrines in convict with the Lutheran faith...
...Convict Jose Simao, serving a 15-year sentence for murder and robbery, sized up his new cell mate as an ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...