Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police in the U.S. were for generations under no obligation to observe constitutional guarantees in criminal cases. Arrests and searches without warrants were routine; even today, third-degree methods are not unknown. In New York City, former Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Dougherty wrote recently: "It is hardly news that suspects of serious crimes often get 'worked over' in the back rooms of station houses. The truth is that most crimes are not solved by fingerprints and wristwatch radios and the skillful assembling of clues. The suspect confesses, voluntarily or involuntarily...
Last May, Kovac tendered his resignation from the finance committee job, effective July 1. Kelly came to suspect that Kovac was planning to go to work for Goldwater's new Republican splinter group, the Free Society Association-and that he meant to take with him some of the National Committee's valuable lists of financial contributors. As the date of Kovac's leave-taking approached, Kelly and three assistants made a nighttime raid on Kovac's office, spent 1½ hours rummaging around in full view of three finance-committee staffers, jimmied open desk drawers, carted...
...Schaefer Brewing Co. "We're willing to forsake all those people who drink a can of beer once every two weeks," says Market Development Manager Edmund E. Kelly. Schaefer still brews for the 20% who drink 75% of the suds and enjoy it, the brewers suspect, for lustier reasons than lightness...
...last week's key decision, the court confronted a conviction that unquestionably violated Mapp's "exclusionary rule." When New Orleans police arrested Burglary Suspect Victor Linkletter, they took his keys, entered his home without a warrant, and seized the evidence that got him a nine-year rap at hard labor. This occurred in 1958-one year after Miss Mapp's offense. But Linkletter's greatest misfortune was that his conviction became final 15 months before the Supreme Court's Mapp decision. Nonetheless, he appealed on the ground that Mapp should void his conviction...
...Parker, 29, has only been varsity coach for three years. So he has a lot to learn. When experts say this year's Harvard eight is one of the best college crews in the history of the sport, Parker not only agrees but goes up a stroke. "I suspect that this crew is faster than most, if not all, previous college crews-faster at whatever distance...