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...longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted that he wanted "reinforcement of the powers of the police." In the midst of the debate, President François Mitterrand dictated the terms of peace. The Giscardian law, he declared, must go. He then ordered...
...hypothetical case of McGuire vs. the State of Ames, two six-member teams of third-year law students debated whether the Constitution permits a state to detain an individual between arrest and trial once a judge finds that the individual is potentially dangerous and that no conditions for release would ensure the public's safety...
...deciding for the appellee, the judges upheld the constitutionality of the hypothetical Ames Statute, which permits the state to detain individuals on the grounds that they are potentially dangerous...
...Estis said yesterday he was unaware of any marijuana of firecrackers in the apartment, and reiterated his charges that police arrested him and three other rally organizers in a deliberate attempt to detain them from the protest against the South African rugby team, the Springboks...
Many states are pulling more tipplers over to the side of the road. A new law in Michigan that allows police to detain drivers whom they suspect of drinking has increased arrests by 21% over the past year and a half. Previously, an officer either had to see an incident or find a witness to it. Maryland's arrest rate is up 109% this year, in part because of a $150,000 federal grant that pays state troopers to work overtime, particularly on weekends, to nab boozed-up motorists...