Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, the Justice Department continued to use the same trespassing bugs outlawed by the Supreme Court. In July 1966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum in an income tax evasion case stating that the FBI had installed a microphone through the wall of a hotel room--in clear disregard for the Silverman decision. Before 1963, the memorandum stated, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had the authority to order the installation of trespassing eavesdropping equipment "in the interest of internal or national safety...
...mention Reagan as a presidential possibility. But the first 100 days of his administration show confusion, ineptness, destructive programs, and a disregard for the welfare of the people. He and his advisers, wealthy reactionaries, have placed the dollar above human rights, offered nothing creative or constructive. If good looks, a nice smile and a mouthful of beautiful teeth are the requisites for the presidency, he has all the qualifications...
...veniremen exactly what they have read in the press-and then prod them to reconsider it entirely in terms of reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury in the Candy Mossier case (see following story)," he says, "I knew we were in. They...
...Powell had shown a cavalier disregard for the law, Yvette's testimony suggested that he had acted even more callously toward his wife. After their son was born in Puerto Rico in 1962, she said, he ignored her repeated pleas to allow her to return to his office and his life. In fact, said Yvette, she has had no communication from her husband since their last meeting in September 1965. When she tried to see him in Washington last August, he was unavailable. They have no separation agreement, and Powell has sent her about $6,850 in support payments...
...died an hour later. Subsequently, Canton Cab Driver Lloyd E. Miller Jr., 28, was sentenced to death for the crime. Yet Janice's murder remains unsolved. Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed Miller's conviction because the prosecution had used false evidence with an almost incredible disregard for U.S. standards of fair trial...