Word: informers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost record time the Supreme Court has been forced to face the task of clarifying its own opinion by accepting five new confession cases. They raise six vital issues: 1) When do a suspect's constitutional rights begin? 2) Must police inform him of those rights? 3) Does he need a lawyer to waive them? 4) Are indigents entitled to lawyers in the police station? 5) Does Escobedo retroactively threaten pre-1964 confessions? 6) To what extent does it forbid the whole process of U.S. police interrogations...
...police extract by even the most subtle threats or promises, and though no American need answer a single police question, those facts are generally unknown to the vast majority of arrested Americans-the poor in pocket, mind or spirit. For the Fifth Amendment does not automatically command police to inform anyone of his rights; the suspect himself must know those rights in order to exercise them. Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, interrogation is the most crucial phase of his entire case...
...feel that the men at the grass roots of this country know better than anyone else who is a Communist and who is not. They will be the judges of who should participate, and I have faith in their judgment. As for the Buddhists, we will try to inform all the faithful of the danger of such elements...
...City Council yesterday referred Councillor Walter J. Sullivan's delaying order to Traffic Director Robert Rudolph for consideration. The Council told Rudolph to report back in two weeks and inform it on the possibilities of painting the crosswalks and still enforcing the law near the already set May 15 date...
...finally got into the hands of the first sergeant. After that Schmidt really did have something to bitch about. He was assigned to extra duty peeling potatoes and scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution stopped he would inform the press, he was charged with "wrongful communication of a threat" and "extortion." Despite the chaplain's testimony that he was only guilty of immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade and a bad-conduct discharge...