Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Mesopotamian kingdoms of Elam and Sumer, which were located in the Fertile Crescent region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and have long been considered the first civilized cultures. Equally intriguing, some of the artifacts found near Shahdad are so similar to those from Elam that archaeologists suspect that trade flowed regularly between the two communities. Despite the bleak surroundings, the newly discovered settlement was well situated for a mercantile role. Built on a plain known since ancient days as Xabis, it sits astride the principal trade routes between northern Iran and the Persian Gulf...
...policeman. He notes that "police can often put pressure on a witness to clear up their caseload." They can press for a quick identification, fearing that the longer a witness mulls, the more likely he is to have doubts. Often others in the lineup look so little like the suspect that the witnesses see no one else who fits the general description they have already supplied. Finally, human nature tends to turn a tentative identification into an absolute certainty by trial time. As Schrager himself said of the girls who picked him out: "They were so intelligent and so convincing...
...Earl Warren's Supreme Court expressed its wariness of lineups by holding that an indicted suspect was entitled to have his lawyer present to prevent at least the obvious inequities. But the Burger Court last year cut into that right by refusing to apply it before the suspect has been indicted. Thus police now often delay formal charges until after the lineup...
...earlier victim, Police Chief Duckett, had the reputation of being a tough cop. After a crime was committed, he did not discourage his police from wholesale roundups of blacks merely on suspicion that some might have been involved. On one occasion he publicly slapped a black suspect across the face. In the black community (which makes up about 60% of the Bermudian population of 52,000), Scotland Yard Superintendent William Wright has found a "wall of silence" about the Duckett crime...
...theft is so open that museums that buy stolen objects do not always bother to conceal it. Their regular policy, says William D. Rogers, a Washington, D.C., attorney concerned with the legal and ethical aspects of acquisition, is "the less you know, the better." The Met itself has a suspect collection of 219 objects ranging from pottery to rare silver ewers and vases. When the collection was bought through a New York dealer, J.J. Klegman, in 1966, it was widely rumored that the Met had at last acquired the so-called Lydian treasure trove. The Lydian collection came...