Word: detainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states--then what...
...Government Accounting Office as well as by Senators and Congressmen. He is even willing to turn over his income tax returns to investigators. But he is extremely popular with both Republicans and Democrats and respected for his personal probity, and it seems doubtful that the examining committees will detain him very long...
...state infinitely detain so-called criminally insane persons if no hope for rehabilitation exists...
Tonis said that because the students decided not to file a complaint against the suspect with the Cambridge police, the University police could not detain the alleged thief. He added that if the students had filed a complaint, they could have been sued for false arrest...
...insanity proposal. Most experts have become convinced that a jury trial is a poor place to determine mental health. Nor did the President seem to find much in the criminal code in need of easing. One notable exception: it will no longer be a federal offense to detain "a United States carrier pigeon...