Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Transcripts of a radio conversation on the night of March 14 reveal that the police who searched Cochrane and Williams were twice told to look for a white suspect...
...evident that this was a case of racial harassment. Even if I had been a potential suspect, even if I had been a Black assailant, the way they treated me--they didn't accord me or my friend Craig with any respect...
...think he would be able to follow his plan. "The hard-line will take over for one or two years," he said, during which time he did not think he would be allowed to visit the United States. "They'll suspect everyone from abroad...
...technique called DNA fingerprinting has, since the mid-1980s, become an important tool for police and prosecutors. Matching a suspect's DNA, the genetic material found in most cells, with DNA found in blood or semen at the scene of a crime can provide seemingly indisputable evidence of guilt. But now DNA fingerprinting is itself on trial, and shadows of doubt are falling on detective work that once seemed virtually infallible. Says William Thompson, a professor of social ecology at the University of California at Irvine: "This technology has been steamrollered through the courts, and now it's beginning...
...Street Cray's stock fell 10% in one day. In Japan some thought they smelled a "political maneuver." Since U.S. agencies like to have at least two bidders on any contract, the exit of ETA opened a window of opportunity for Cray's Japanese rivals. The Cray split, they suspect, may have been designed to close that window. Cray officials do not deny it. Chuckles one: "They got the message in a hurry...