Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinction between Daley's kill and maim categories. Said Arnold Sagalyn, a U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department official and member of the President's riot commission: "It clearly seems wise public policy not to deprive a person of his life, particularly without a trial, for a crime that may involve property worth only a few dollars...
...been full of tangles with the law. Son of a laborer who had the same name, Ray dropped out of school in the 10th grade, spent two years in the Army, where he served a term for drunkenness and "breaking arrest," was discharged in 1948, and turned to civilian crime. He was convicted of burglary in Los Angeles in 1949, of robbery in Chicago in 1952, of forgery in Missouri in 1955, and in 1960 had drawn the 20-year term for armed robbery and car theft that he was serving when he made his escape...
Campus officers may seem little more than glorified caretakers, but a 1965 vote of the Massachusetts legislature made them full policemen on University property. The distinction is more than semantic. Campus police have the power of arrest, and in the case of crime on the Harvard campus, they're expected to use it. The arrest process is dangerous for any officer, and the University Police deserve personal protection no less than their Cambridge counterparts...
...individual conscience." The second snag is more difficult. The defense has said that a close reading of the Selective Service regulations shows that Congress never intended to make failure to carry your draft card with you illegal. In that case, collecting draft cards would be no crime at all. In addition, the five's lawyers contended during the hearings that turning in cards is a form of "symbolic speech" and thus as protected as a sermon or an address. But the concept of symbolic speech--at least to this date--has received a decidedly unsympathetic welcome in the courts...
This list would further include James Rosenthal, associate of both the Joint Center for Urban Studies and of the Kennedy Institute and general editor of the Riot Report, James Vorenberg '48, professor of Law and author of the President's Crime Commission Report, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law and author of the Report's chapter on the mass media, and Maurice D. Kilbridge, professor of Business Administration...