Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juries about their reasons for coming to Apalachin.* Facing them in mid-January: maximum sentences of five years and/or $10,000 fines. In what U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers hailed as a "landmark" verdict, the Government in an ingeniously based prosecution won its biggest courtroom victory against organized crime since the conviction of Al Capone. For without proving that the defendants had assembled for a "crime convention," youthful (36) Special U.S. Prosecutor Milton Wessel convinced the jury of the hoods' "togetherness in crime, partnership in lying...
...police, in halting and questioning the defendants, had not encroached upon the constitutional guarantee against illegal search and seizure. Judge Kaufman, whose scrupulous conduct of the death-sentence Rosenberg spy trial (TIME, April 16, 1951) withstood all appeals, held that the police had "reasonable grounds" for believing that "a crime might have been committed"; that "the circumstances were such that an immediate stoppage and investigation was rendered absolutely necessary." Those questioned, said the court, were merely getting an opportunity to convince police that no crime had been committed. They did so and were released...
Martin I. v. George V. But last week the world moved closer all the same. Across the channel, the Devon County Council had sent off a letter to Her Majesty's Boundary Commission urging its claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...
...cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled: "You'll get your turn, Mr. Morality of the Century...
...better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw a merciful veil, as an occasion for descriptions and reconstructions that are nothing more or less than handbooks for crime and incentives to vice...