Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voice in Policy. White political, police and business chieftains have aided in other ways. Wisely, high officials in New York, Newark, Chicago, Detroit and other potentially explosive cities have begun holding regular dialogues with black militants and giving them a voice in schools, welfare, urban renewal, law enforcement and other policy matters that crucially affect Negro neighborhoods. In Detroit, which has only 328 blacks on its 4,656-man force, 40% of the cadets now in the police academy are Negroes. In several cases, black militants have been given local government jobs and other incentives to cool...
...Pone raced to New Cassel. Outside the laundry room with the police lay Mitchell's common-law wife on a stretcher. He had shot both her and her brother after an argument. Mitchell ignored the wounded woman's pleas to come out and give up the child. Then Pone took over. Pone used Negro psychology-sociology to make his case to Mitchell, also a Negro...
Although few of them are yet aware of it, Californians who own or rent property have something in common to grumble about. Until recently, state law provided that liability for injuries suffered by persons on their property varied according to the victim's status. Most protected by the law were people like milkmen, repairmen and insurance agents, who were called to do business. Last in line to collect for injury were social guests and trespassers, both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went...
...killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that provides for confinement of material witnesses, and imprisoned Stephens in July. In setting bail of $10,000, the Memphis Criminal Court virtually assured that he would be safely tucked away until Ray's scheduled trial in November (see PRESS...
...Actual Threats. Tennessee's law had been tested in the courts only once, but in that case the jailing of a witness had been upheld because he had balked at testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied...