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...CRIMINAL JUSTICE: In a 1949 decision, the Court allowed states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. But then came 1961's Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even if illegally seized evidence shows guilt the defendant may be freed because the police violated the Constitution. Far less controversial: 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which overturned the conviction of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon, applies the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel to all defendants in state criminal...
Belzoni: Ellis Jackson, local COFO director, arrested when he went to investigate the beating of a Negro boy. Charged with disturbing the peace and refusing to obey an officer...
...sustaining her appeal (Mapp v. Ohio), the Supreme Court ordered every state to obey the exclusionary rule. At the same time, says Kamisar, Minneapolis police were quick to blame the decision for a 10% upsurge in local burglaries. Only after the argument dwindled, and the cops got back to work, did a police department spokesman remember and put into words the real reason for the crime wave. "The burglars had a lot better weather this year-no snow...
...appeals court decision was likely to have an impact in many another state, and it was certain to desegregate the jury-picking system all over Georgia, as the state's courts hastened to obey an old mandate freshly spelled out. "It would be prohibitive from a financial standpoint not to," says Judge Nichols. "Their decisions would be reversed, and have to be reheard, every time." That was just what happened in Sumter County, where Civil Rights Worker Ralph Allen will almost certainly be tried again-this time by a legally correct jury...
...Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction." And in Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenville, S.C., integration proceeded without major trouble. In Greenville, a young Negro was sipping tea in the Jack Tar Poinsett Hotel dining room when South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond...