Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed late in the day for the Supreme Court to feel the urge to reaffirm those rights, the court itself was at least partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a murder rap against Danny Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) because Chicago police had extracted a confession from him after denying him access to a lawyer he asked for-a lawyer who was also in the police station asking to see him. The generalities with which the court disposed of that specific problem...
...Tarrytown, N.Y., home one hot night in June 1955. Because he had been in jail once before for another stabbing, Elksnis was a twotime loser headed for a heavy sentence. So when he came before Westchester County Judge George A. Brenner prepared to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge, he could not but accept Brenner's offer: "If you will plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter, I will sentence you to not more than ten years." When time came for sentencing, however, the judge allowed that when he made the deal he had not known that...
Weinfeld's approval of Elksnis' writ of habeas corpus left the state with a choice between appealing Weinfeld's ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and retrying Elksnis on the murder charge. What is not known is whether the ruling will bring a flood of appeals from convicts who struck similar bargains and now figure they will beat the rap because time has eroded the evidence...
Unhappily, the prohibitions are not foolproof-vixens disturbed by a low-flying plane can go berserk and murder their cubs. And sometimes the prohibitions are limited to members of the immediate tribe-rats never bite rats that belong to their own colony, but two colonies of rats have been known to meet in a pitched battle that leaves hundreds of dead on the ground. These bloodbaths, Lorenz suggests, are epidemics of mass psychosis; they serve no rat-preserving purpose that he or any other naturalist can see. In general, he concludes ominously, a species is less often annihilated...
...Cross to serve God's cause with their swords. Bohemond of Taranto, the impoverished son of the Norman conqueror of Sicily, sought to carve a kingdom of his own in the East. And they were joined by religious fanatics, adventurers and brigands who sought only pillage, murder and rape. In the Crusades, idealism and gangsterism were in harness...