Word: duress
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...investigate the 1963 murder of Black Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers. The informant kidnaped a suspected Klan leader, bound him hand and foot, and then interrogated him at pistol point at a lonely farm to extract an account of the crime. But largely because such evidence was obtained under duress, and therefore is inadmissible in court, the Government was never able to get a conviction in the Evers case...
...being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone is wondering whether the guy is worth all the trouble. The answer is frequently no." AI never claims responsiblity for winning its adoptees' freedom, explains Secretary-General Martin Ennals, because "no government likes to be told they are doing something under duress." Yet the group produces results: of some 16,000 prisoners aided since 1961, 10,600 have been released...
Travers told the Associated Press yesterday that Martin G. Regan's decision to cooperate with the prosecution was "free from all duress and coercion." Regan has reportedly been granted immunity from prosecution to turn state's evidence...
...roots run deep and strong in Georgia redneck country. In Plains, his home town, blacks live in a section of their own and attend all-black churches. School integration came slowly, painfully and under duress. Yet in Democratic primaries this year in states as diverse as Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, blacks have trooped to the polls and cast the largest share of their votes for Georgian Jimmy Carter. The phenomenon of blacks backing a Southern white reared in the Georgia backwoods is one of the most intriguing aspects of the campaign to date...
...person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants. It was not clear what the defense wanted to say." Northwestern Law Professor Jon Waltz agreed. "On the one hand, Patty is supposed to be brainwashed," he said. "On the other, she's under duress. There's something vaguely inconsistent in that approach...