Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch hacks? Talk about the blind leading the blind! The growing legions of computer buffs and professionals are loaded with people who turn to an impersonal, unemotional computer to give them what they can neither give nor get from flesh-and-blood relationships. Are eyestrain, increased white-collar crime and broken marriages the improved world the computer has brought...
...more than two years, Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and White House aides have denied that they had any contacts with private investigators hired by Schiavone Construction Co. to spy on those who were investigating Donovan's alleged ties to organized crime. The Labor Secretary is a major stockholder and former vice president of the New Jersey firm. Allegations against Donovan have been investigated by a special prosecutor, a Senate committee and a Brooklyn grand jury, none of which accused him of having committed any crime. However, papers found in the files of the construction company's chief investigator...
During ten days in September 1976, David Leroy Washington went on a bone-chilling crime spree across Dade County, Fla., that included torture, kidnaping and three murders. After turning himself in, Washington insisted on confessing to all three murders and pleaded guilty. His lawyer, William Tunkey, opposed the guilty pleas. But then, at the special sentence hearing required in capital cases, Tunkey offered no character witnesses, introduced no expert psychiatric evidence and requested no presentence report that might have been used to mitigate the punishment. Washington was condemned to death, and later appealed, arguing that his Sixth Amendment right...
...that police without a warrant can almost never arrest a person in his home for a minor offense. Though he concurred in the decision, Justice Blackmun observed that he thought it "amazing" that the "great state" of Wisconsin had failed to make a first drunk-driving offense a crime. Ironically, if it had been a more serious offense the Justices might have upheld the right of police to intrude on the home's sanctity because of the probability that important evidence, the suspect's level of inebriation, could have disappeared by the time a warrant was issued...
...Mystery Writer Elmore Leonard crime pays and plays