Word: squeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaughtering industry has long boasted that it used up everything but the squeal. Together with the utilization of other wastes-such as corncobs and tobacco shreddings to produce face powder and insecticides-the agriculture-waste industry is a $5.9 billion business. The squeezings from soybean oil are used for oral contraceptives. Hiram Walker says, only half in jest, that it recovers "the hangover from whisky" -fusel oil, usually blamed for hangovers, can now be largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came...
...Dragnet, Webb and Alexander trapped their suspects through clever but ever-polite cross-questioning in the squeal room. Not so on Felony Squad. "On our show the viewers will see the crime committed, so they know the guy's guilty. That way, nobody gets upset when we shoot him." Most often the TV crook will bite the dust in the usual gunfight finale, but on occasion he may die in an auto crash or fall to his death from a tower or cliff. In short, the good guys will still be beating the bad guys-at least...
Trial by Police. Clearly, the critical confrontation today is often reached in the station-house "squeal room," where police "make" cases by eliciting presumably voluntary confessions. Although the Fifth Amendment bars the use of any confession that police extract by even the most subtle threats or promises, and though no American need answer a single police question, those facts are generally unknown to the vast majority of arrested Americans-the poor in pocket, mind or spirit. For the Fifth Amendment does not automatically command police to inform anyone of his rights; the suspect himself must know those rights in order...
...defendant later recants, forcing courts to determine the voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...
...Hogan made the Fifth Amendment binding on states. A week later Escobedo reversed Danny's conviction after he had spent 4½ years in prison-and moved the Constitution, and lawyers, into the police station. The court made it clear that criminal prosecutions actually start in the squeal room. To bar legal aid at that crucial stage, it ruled, "would make the trial no more than an appeal from the interrogation...