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...Fourth Amendment admits few exceptions to its stern command that police get judge-signed warrants before searching private homes. When police arrest a suspected felon in a private place, for example, they can then search the immediate premises without a warrant. But they cannot first search hundreds of homes in a blind effort to find him. In short, they must have a warrant to enter a private home unless they have "probable cause" to believe that the suspect is already there...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...
...make lift passes harder to pull off, resorts are stapling them four or five times onto a parka's zipper loop; by the time a light-fingered felon gets one off, all he has left is confetti...
...mistake can be fatal; it is legal for a cop to use all necessary force, even to kill a fleeing felon; but his power to use force is much more limited in the case of a fleeing misdemeanant. There comes a point when the arrester may be subject to murder charges-and when the arrestee is entitled to shoot back in self-defense...
...anyway, the Commonwealth's electorate can distinguish Barry Goldwater from native Republicans--a million voters split their tickets for Johnson and Volpe. Brooke's victory also demonstrates that, at least in theory, the voters are against sin and corruption (though they re-elected the two indicted Councilors and the felon running for the General Court...