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...trust authority. It ruled that a witness compelled to testify before a grand jury need be given immunity only from prosecution based on what he says or evidence developed from it; the majority asserted that prosecutors would not be able to misuse such leads to find other evidence to convict the witness. The court also upheld a policeman's right to stop and frisk a suspect even if the officer's suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap...
...Convict Bobby Lee Hunter has come a long way since he fatally stabbed a man five years ago in a snack-bar scuffle in Do As You Choose Alley, a Charleston, S.C., ghetto. Sentenced to 18 years for manslaughter, he spent the first few years in prison as a sullen, scrappy teen-age con often banished to solitary confinement. Then he was encouraged to take up supervised fighting. His surliness vanished, and since 1970 little Bobby Lee has developed into the nation's best amateur flyweight boxer, with a good chance of winning a medal...
Daume's offhand remarks resembled a flurry of low blows. Olympic historians can recall no precedent for a ban, real or threatened, against a competitor on the grounds that he had a police record. Several U.S. sportsmen argued that Hunter, as a convict on the road to rehabilitation through sport, might set a better example to youth than some Olympic athletes who have never been in jail but are known not to be paragons of virtue...
...makeweights in the scales of justice, he comes strongly to the defense of the U.S. legal system. "The worst thing about our system," he concludes, "is its dreadful inefficiency." The best thing? The idea that it is "better to let ten guilty men go free than to convict one innocent...
...week the British liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was in mid-ocean when an extortionist telephoned Cunard Lines and demanded a queen's ransom of $350,000. Six bombs were hidden aboard the Queen and ready to detonate, the caller warned. They had been placed there by an ex-convict and a terminal cancer victim who were fatalistically prepared to be blown sky-high along with the ship's 1,481 passengers and 900 crewmen...