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...over for running a stop sign. Asked to take a blood-alcohol test, Neville refused, even after a warning that failure to take the test could lead to a one-year loss of his driver's license. Could his refusal be used as evidence at trial? South Dakota's top court said no, but last week the Supreme Court said...
...notion that government is both evil and unnecessary has had its principled advocates for centuries. But a modern-day group championing that impractical idea saw its claims to respectability vanish one day last week in an eruption of automatic rifle fire just before sunset on a normally quiet North Dakota prairie. In less than a minute, Kenneth Muir, 53, chief U.S. marshal in the state, and Deputy Marshal Robert Cheshire Jr., 32, had been killed. Deputy Marshal James Hopson, 59, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. So, too, was Yorivon Kahl, 23, son of Gordon Kahl...
...slain U.S. marshals had an arrest warrant for Kahl, who had violated the terms of his probation after being convicted in Midland, Texas, in 1977 of failing to file federal income tax returns in 1973 and 1974. He had not reported to a probation officer in North Dakota, as required, and he had associated with "known tax-violator groups," in this case, the Posse Comitatus (power of the county). This loosely organized, insignificantly small, ultra-right-wing group, which has isolated chapters mainly in the rural Midwest, respects only one official: a county sheriff. It opposes all other government officials...
...longer plausible that a Soviet armored blitzkrieg into West Germany would trigger a U.S. retaliatory blow from North Dakota, since that in turn might trigger a counterretaliation against...
...found to have had a homicide rate identical to adjacent states, Ohio and Indiana, that were executing. Similarly, Minnesota and Rhode Island, states with no death penalty, had proportionately as many killings as their respective neighbors, Iowa and Massachusetts, which had capital punishment. In 1939 South Dakota adopted and used the death penalty, and its homicide rate fell 20% over the next decade; North Dakota got along without capital punishment for the same ten years, and homicides dropped...