Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same rules as adult courts: "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone. Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court." A dissent last month from the 5-to-4 decision that labeled public drunkenness a crime may eventually prove to be the majority opinion. Criminal penalties," argued Fortas, "may not be inflicted upon a person for being in a condition he is powerless to change...
...high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime," said Justice Potter Stewart, the underpants' "gruesomely emotional impact upon the jury was incalculable...
Instead, Prosecutor Ramsey relied on the red-stained underpants found a mile from the scene of the crime. They were smeared with the girl's blood, he told the jury, and discarded by Miller after the assault...
...only interim paper to survive, the Detroit American, fanned the hysteria. Converted from a Polish-language daily to an English one in April, it has built up a claimed 178,500 circulation by concentrating on crime. "Crummy vicious street punks continued to rob and beat pedestrians over the weekend," began a typical story. Another told of a Miami socialite who had learned how to shoot after being robbed four times...
...book was clearly that the Russian intellectuals who made the revolution would have been well pleased to unmake it. To have written such a book, even for the author's private amusement, seems foolhardy. Lampooning the proletariat was unpardonable heresy, and Translator Michael Glenny suggests a fouler crime against the state: the figure of Bulgakov's too clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes...