Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact-finding process." Such decisions have been made retroactive because they raise doubts about the actual guilt of the prisoners. By contrast, said Clark, prisoners convicted before Mapp are no less guilty for having been deprived of the exclusionary rule. Mapp's prime purpose was to deter lawless police action now and in the future. "That purpose will not at this late date be served by the wholesale release of the guilty victims...
...thing from saying that it is even "technically correct." In short, Dr. Graham was agreeing with the World Court that the French and Russians had erred in trying to read the Charter too narrowly; he was disagreeing only with those Americans who interpreted the non-payment as a wholly lawless act incapable of any rational justification...
Popular Conscience. Like his idol Justice Brandeis, Frankfurter prized "the right to be left alone." Thus, he condemned lawless police searches and denounced wiretapping. He wrote the famous 1943 McNabb decision excluding confessions obtained from federal prisoners during unnecessary delays in arraignment. "The history of liberty," he said, "has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards...
...Philadelphia riot [Sept. 4] was not a "race riot" but simply an infinitesimal part of our Negro community-the rowdy, lawless, hoodlum element-taking advantage of an excuse. There was no issue of black v. white. The Negro community rallied to the support of the mayor and the law-enforcement agencies. Residents opened their homes to police; women prepared free doughnuts and coffee for the weary officers on riot duty; area residents sent telegrams of support to the mayor and an offer to help in cleaning up; a clearinghouse was set up in an area church for people to return...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. The Democrats call for "full observance" and "fair, effective enforcement" of the new civil rights law, reaffirm "our belief that lawless disregard for the rights of others is wrong-whether used to deny equal rights or to obtain equal rights," hold that "true democracy of opportunity will not be served by establishing quotas based on the same false distinctions we seek to erase, nor can the effects of prejudice be neutralized by the expedient of preferential practices." Thus the Democrats match the Republicans, who, besides promising "full implementation and faithful execution of the Civil Rights...