Word: suspect
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...Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel begins when police shift from investigation to accusation. And in People v. Dorado, which the Supreme Court recently refused to review, California's highest state court went even further. It ruled that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession even if he does not ask for a lawyer...
...sound spectrograph, Kersta converts spoken words into picture patterns that he says identify the speaker as reliably as his fingerprints. The system works no matter how the voice is disguised. At this stage, voice prints require wiretapping, which may pose legal problems, but someday police may record every suspect's voice as routinely as they now do other physical characteristics...
...takes seven days and ten clear fingerprints for police in one section of New York to identify a suspect from another part of the state. Gallati plans to convert all fingerprints into mathematical formulas and store them on magnetic tape along with all data on personal appearance and every crook's modus operandi (working methods). With only one or two fingerprints, telephone-linked computers can then "search" police files across the state, yielding positive identification from hundreds of miles away in only two hours...
...issue of the trial, that is: Does the initial failure of an investigating officer to warn the accused of his right to remain silent invalidate later voluntary admissions? In my case, the investigating officer had talked with the accused at the scene, realized that he was a prime suspect, then warned him of his rights. The accused's two separate voluntary statements, made later, clearly established his guilt but were inadmissible as evidence because he had talked, even though voluntarily, with the investigating officer before being warned of his rights. Had I been able to read TIME during...
Among our college generation, war is unpleasant to contemplate, unfashionable to defend, and seems uncomfortably close. And as a consequence, military types are not afforded too many looks of glazed admiration. They tend to raise visions of General Jack D. Ripper and have suspect...