Word: suspect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elsewhere, Mitchell has authorized wider use of wiretaps, ordered federal prosecutors not to concede a case simply because a suspect received inadequate warning against selfincrimination, and allocated $236 million to finance a new program to help localities fight crime. So far, his tactics have not paid...
Drugs can only be legally administered by a veterinarian but around the racetrack many drugs are given without the "doctor's orders." Trainers, a paranoid and calculating lot, seek the infinitesimal edge over their neighbor. They suspect their best friend of trying to beat them out of a purse and a winning bet, and as a defense they scheme 24 hours a day to protect themselves against chicanery. For a few of them the best defense is a good offense, and their rule is- if you don't get caught, you didn...
...Image from first place to last in the 1968 Kentucky Derby caused a controversy still unsettled in the courts. Was Dancer's Image given butazolidin within the forbidden pre- race period? Peter Fuller and company argued that the test was inconclusive and the competence of the chemist was suspect. The State Racing Commission argued that the test was adequate and that if the stable hands were not guilty of administering the pain-killing drug to the horse, they were at least guilty of negligence in the care of the horse-witness the suspension of the trainer and two grooms after...
Selling a Client's Story Bill Boyd is a Texas lawyer who recently acquired an infamous client: Charles Watson, a local boy from Boyd's home town of McKinney who is a star suspect in the bizarre Sharon Tate murder case. Soon after Watson was arrested in McKinney, where he is now fighting extradition to California, the country lawyer revealed some big-city traits. As swarms of reporters begged for jailhouse interviews with his client, Boyd began dropping ten-gallon hints that Watson's family might go along -"if the offer is substantial...
...Supreme Court's later extension of that standard to all the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor's court also obliged state and local police to warn a suspect that he has a right to silence and counsel. In 1966, the Supreme Court followed suit in Miranda v. Arizona...