Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a weakness on the Penn squad, it is at the guard spot. Beecroft and Whitey Varga are suspect ballhandlers, a full-court press Sanders employed in Philadelphia bothered the methodical Quakers in the waning moments of the game...
...Generalizations are generally suspect, but I believe that the Federal Energy Office illustrates the general bureaucratic response to crisis. When it could have helped, it was not in existence; now created, it creates its own crisis to justify its existence...
...government has responded to the shellings by rushing a 1,400-man task force, backed by 25 armored personnel carriers, to the area southwest of the capital where they suspect the insurgents have stationed their artillery. The task force failed to find the howitzers. Military observers believe that the insurgents are merely lying low, waiting for the government forces to withdraw before resuming the attacks. Said a Western military expert: "Neither side is strong enough to win, or weak enough to lose." A sure loser, however, will be once graceful and tranquil Phnom-Penh. With seven months remaining...
...York City Judge Irving Younger wrote an opinion condemning the far more widespread practice of "dropsy" testimony. The Supreme Court had ruled that evidence abandoned by a suspect is no longer constitutionally protected. This logical legal distinction has resulted in literally hundreds of police every year reporting in court that defendants dropped incriminating evidence-usually narcotics -thereby justifying arrest. There are local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents...
...Well, they're lying like that, so I'm going to do it too.' " Columbia Law Professor Richard Uviller, a former prosecutor, observes that false testimony by cops can be divided into two categories. The all too familiar "white lie" does not directly bear on a suspect's guilt or innocence. A cop may say falsely, for instance, that he gave the required warnings about a suspect's rights because, to a policeman, that is merely a bothersome technicality. According to Uviller and most other observers, the more serious form of police perjury-false testimony...