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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly, no matter how many cop shows they watch, seven-year-olds can't understand Miranda rights. In an important case in 1986, the New York supreme court issued a ruling that made it more difficult, at least in that state, to question very young children suspected of crimes. Three years earlier, a seven-year-old Queens boy named Julian B. had allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

There are few pleasures greater than watching somebody get yelled at. You loved it when your mom stuck it to your brother, and you love it now, rubbernecking to see a cop pull a car over. One of the best spots for catching good, stern lectures in our authority-free culture is the bench of lower-court judges. These guys can lay into punks and deadbeats like Father Knows Best on a caffeine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Here Come The Judges | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Monahan left his duties on the assetsforfeiture unit of the state police to become atraffic cop on the Mass. Turnpike. Though his newjob paid more, Maxwell said Riley and others haddriven Monahan from his passion, investigativework...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jury Finds Riley Intimidated Trooper | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

MOSCOW: Russia's new $18 billion IMF deal comes loaded with a raft of economic strictures, and Boris Yeltsin knows that the Russian people are in for a long autumn of discontent. Time for a new top cop. TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier says Yeltsin's sacking Sunday of his domestic security chief means the Russian president is intent on keeping his government young, strong and in firm control of the populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin Braces for Trouble at Home | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...looking remarkably unpregnant for someone who gives birth at the end of the movie, is sweet. Jet Li is magnificently creepy as a strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lighthearted Weapon | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

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