Word: murderously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gonna be buried. You got the shovel. You're diggin' the hole.") Only the tape showed how the detectives had repeatedly lied in promising to send Biron to juvenile court, even though he was legally an adult. When he talked, they charged him with adult murder. After hearing that tape, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed Biron's conviction. Significantly, he was later reconvicted on other evidence the cops already...
...from being freed, as the detective had promised, Danny, Grace and Chan were all indicted for murder. Under Illinois law, Danny's admission made each as culpable as if each had admitted pulling the trigger. Grace was later acquitted for lack of clear links to the crime, and the charges against Chan were dropped. As for Danny, although he recanted his statement, the trial judge ruled it voluntary, dismissed his handcuffing as "ordinary police procedure," and sentenced him to 20 years...
...defendant -something that still awes Danny Escobedo, now 28 and long familiar with police stations. At his height, Danny hardly seems a threat to any healthy policewoman; yet he has managed to get himself picked up twice for "investigation" and arrested five times on charges ranging from assault to murder, including two arrests since his release for packing a pistol and selling barbiturates. So far, he has beaten every...
...nearly all the others have "prompt arraignment" laws, state judges widely tolerate incommunicado police interrogation lasting as long as three days. The Supreme Court did not even attack the use of coerced confession in state courts until the 1936 case of Brown v. Mississippi, when it voided the "voluntary" murder confessions of three Negroes who had talked only after being beaten with steel-studded belts for five days...
...Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve hours. Cassidy, then 25 and "regressed," received no warning and confessed during 20 hours' grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping...