Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, including members of Harvard SDS and May 2nd Movement , marched for some 45 minutes the auditorium carrying signs and "Congo si, Yankee no" and "Stop aid to Tshombe." Signs in English Swahill accused the U.S. of murder in Congo and asserted American policy "as bankrupt as the state...
...Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) decided that the right to have counsel present begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. The court ruled that Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo had been forced to confess to a murder without legal aid. After Danny had spent 41 years in jail, Illinois dropped the charges...
...Rideau v. Louisiana (1963) reversed Bank Robber Wilbert Rideau's murder conviction because a Louisiana sheriff had Rideau "confess" on television before thousands of potential jurors. Rideau was reconvicted and now faces another death sentence...
...confessed. The court said that judges must now determine the voluntariness of disputed confessions before allowing juries to weigh them as evidence. But this month, having lost in a voluntariness hearing, Jackson was again sentenced to death. By last week trial judges had rebuffed four other New York murder defendants under the new procedure...
...contrast, a Frenchman who fails to help another when he can do so without risk is liable for up to five years in prison and a $3,000 fine. The law's rationale, explained Sorbonne Law Professor André Tunc, is that a bystander "participates in the murder by his decision not to intervene." Similar laws are on the books in Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia. Surveys do not show that citizens of those countries feel any more like helping, said Chicago Sociologist Hans Zeisel. But in a comparative study of U.S. and German students, Zeisel found that...