Word: rearrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made it clear that it hoped the police would find another way of sifting out suspects. Whether the police will do so, however, is uncertain. As Justice Potter Stewart pointed out in dissent, even if a suspect's prints were obtained improperly, the police might be able to rearrest him properly later and take his fingerprints then. That being so, it may be some time before police are willing to abandon as handy a device as the dragnet...
...will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled to continue drinking once he started. Marshall also worried about what would happen if the court forbade the jailing of drunks. "The picture of the law's 'revolving door' of arrest, incarceration, release and rearrest is not a pretty one," he admitted, but he could see no satisfactory alternative. Even doctors critical of arresting drunks cannot agree on any treatment that would provide more of a cure than simple drying out in jail...
...touched. Although police must conform to established legal procedures before extraditing a prisoner from one state to another, bail bondsmen remain curiously above the law. They got there by old British common-law tradition; they stay there because of an 1872 Supreme Court ruling which declared that the rearrest of a defendant on bail "is likened to the rearrest of an escaping prisoner by the sheriff...
Shocking & Frightening. The court gave bondsmen the right to rearrest the bailee at any time or place-even when he has no intention of jumping bail whatever. The bailee is "on a string," and the bondsmen "may pull the string whenever they please." The bondsmen may "pursue him into another state, may arrest him on the Sabbath; and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." In retrieving a prisoner from another state, the bondsman needs no warrant, only a court document called a "bail piece," which states his bail relationship to the defendant...