Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being freed, as the detective had promised, Danny, Grace and Chan were all indicted for murder. Under Illinois law, Danny's admission made each as culpable as if each had admitted pulling the trigger. Grace was later acquitted for lack of clear links to the crime, and the charges against Chan were dropped. As for Danny, although he recanted his statement, the trial judge ruled it voluntary, dismissed his handcuffing as "ordinary police procedure," and sentenced him to 20 years...
Handcuffed Client. Grace's husband was shot in the back as he arrived at his slum home on Chicago's West Side one cold January night in 1960. It was a typically clueless crime: no gun was found; there were no witnesses. But 80% of all murders involve friends or relatives, and with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with...
...prove it? Typically, the police chose more interrogation. Ten days later, they persuaded Di Gerlando to finger Danny as the killer. Rushed back to headquarters along with Grace and Chan, Danny was hustled into an interrogation room with his hands manacled behind his back. No one warned him of his rights to silence and to counsel. Once more, Wolfson hurried to the station house. He and Danny got a brief glimpse of each other through a half-open door, but the police told the lawyer that Danny
With no lawyer to advise him, Danny fell into a well-laid legal trap. Confronted with Di Gerlando, Danny blurted: "You did it!"-thus indirectly admitting his own complicity. To shut the trap tighter, a detective then allegedly promised Danny that a full statement would free him, Grace and Chan. After several hours, said police, Danny implicated Grace and stated that he had offered Di Gerlando $500 to kill Grace's husband, and that Chan had been the lookout. Di Gerlando later charged that his confession was beaten out of him. The police denied it; he was convicted...
...distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived. He prizes "the expertness of the man rather than the man himself" because this is what really counts in the "bureaucratized and organized society" in which he lives...