Word: fbi
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...Missouri Weekly polled the state's Bootheel section, Kennedy wound up with 72%, Lyndon 26%, Hubert 2%-though only a few years ago, in the newspaper's words, Bobby was "perhaps the most disliked American in the Bootheel, outside of the FBI's ten most wanted criminals...
Immediately after the decision, ex-FBI Agent Younger ordered a Miranda survey taken throughout his county, which has the largest criminal-case load in the U.S. (see cover story). Younger's study covers a three-week period in June and July and deals with an impressive total of 2,780 felony cases. Younger admits that he was "amazed" by the results of the survey...
...Wheeling, W. Va., U.S. District Court Judge Robert Maxwell refused to grant a new trial to an Ohioan convicted of interstate transportation of a stolen car. According to Defendant Arthur Kennell, the trial judge should have excluded the testimony of an FBI agent who had opened the car door and copied the serial number. That evidence, argued Kennell, violated his 4th Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Judge Maxwell ruled otherwise-on the reasonable ground that Kennell did not own the car that was searched...
...victim who refused to be intimidated was wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers in his possession when the FBI arrested him in June. Yet toy-store badges could be, and sometimes were, used just as effectively as real badges. Apparently the victims were so racked by feelings of guilt that few of them had enough self-possession to challenge the blackmailers...
University of Maryland Sociologist Peter Lejins has urged key reforms in the FBI reports, which he himself helps prepare. Auto thefts, he says, should be divided between cars actually stolen for resale by seasoned pros and those merely "borrowed" and then abandoned by joyriding youths. Not impressed, the FBI has rejected Lejins' idea on the ground that it might encourage joyriding. Lejins also questions the FBI's most dramatic statistic-that U.S. crime is "rising six times faster than the population." In fact, most crimes have always been committed by persons aged...