Word: copse
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Search & Seizure. In equally historic decisions, the court has forced all states to observe the full meaning of the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable search and seizure. Items: - Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ordered state courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment. With no warrant, Cleveland police...
> Ker v. California (1963) provided Mapp's first test amid charges that the court had "handcuffed police." But Mapp forbade only "unreasonable" search and seizure: Ker upheld the right of Los Angeles police to make an arrest and seizure after they entered a narcotics-peddling couple's apartment...
Angry police called for 1,000 more men; cops with dogs began riding the subways. But of all incensed citizens, none acted faster than Juvenile Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, who warned that 27 active juvenile gangs "threaten to take over the city."
At 10:46 a.m., a man on a Lambretta motor scooter buzzed past the cops, parked across the street from the embassy. Moments later, a Renault Fregate sedan drove up, pulled up to the curb about four yards from the building. The driver got out, complained about having motor trouble...
The scene on the sidewalk was a pure Billy Rose spectacle. While cops hovered before the curved Georgian facade of his Manhattan town house, showmanship's shortest (5 ft. 3 in.) giant lounged in the cavity of Henry Moore's Reclining Figure, surrounded by Reg Butler's...