Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Meant Business. The defendants-all but three of them Greenville taxi drivers-seemed ill at ease. Few wore coats or ties; many chewed gum incessantly. Some were accompanied by their wives (in South Carolina, a man on trial for a capital crime is entitled to have his wife with...
...chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a standard routine for appropriations committees. First, he swears members to secrecy. Then he tells them what his FBI is doing to keep such things as crime and the menace of U.S. Communism in check. The Congressmen are flattered at being taken into Hoover's confidence, impressed by the magnitude of his job and the efficiency of the FBI. For fiscal 1948, Hoover wanted $35 million. He got every nickel of it. Thanks largely to Hoover, the entire Justice budget was trimmed a mere $3 million, down to $108 million...
...majority of the Justices took an empirical view. The test of reasonableness, wrote Chief Justice Vinson, varied with each case. A search for objects connected with a crime was legal in certain circumstances. In this case, the search was reasonable. It had to be intensive because of the small size of the objects searched for. The search was made "in good faith" and not as a pretext for looking for something else. The draft cards were seized legally...
...police states, virtually all that is left of free speech is jokes about the Government. Nobody knows who starts these stories; the details are highly flexible; everybody spreads them. The Government may fight back (in Russia, telling political anecdotes can be a crime), but little can be done about the problem without arresting most of the population...
...almost every murder trial, someone raises the question: is the defendant sane? Drs. Cohen & Coffin think it might be easy to tell after a look at the crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...