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Last night, Walsh sponsored an order making direct reference to one of the petitions most prominent signers, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62. Tribe, one of the foremost experts on the Constitution, last week tried to distance himself from the petition, saying he did not know of the racial issues surrounding the petition when he signed it. He said he would cooperate with any investigation of the matter...
...only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
...despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense that what they're dealing with is the rights of drug dealers," says UCLA law professor Peter Arenella. "But they're dealing in all our rights...
...Law-enforcement officials maintain that fears of rampant intrusions into privacy are exaggerated. "Concern that police or federal agents will be searching everybody's trash is kind of ridiculous," says Federal District Judge Robert Bonner, former U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Administration drug czar William Bennett says he was "infuriated" by criticisms last week that the Administration's program relied too heavily on law enforcement at the expense of treatment. Complains Bennett: "If anything like this kind of situation were going on in the suburbs, residents would raise holy hell and say, 'Call in the police...
...charges accusing him of laundering millions of dollars for the cartel. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 30 years in prison. In Washington officials were exultant. "I applaud the extraordinary courage of President Virgilio Barco and the government of Colombia in their effort to restore the rule of law," said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...