Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police arrested Chimel at his home in Santa Ana, Calif., they examined the premises without a search warrant and found some of the stolen coins. Such searches are common. Many police departments, seeking to avoid the necessity of justifying a search warrant before a judge, wait to arrest a suspect at his home, then claim that the search is "incident to a valid arrest" and therefore legal. A 6-to-2 majority of the Justices disagreed. Police, they said, may search an arrested man's person and, to prevent him from destroying evidence, "the area within his reach...
...illegal search may not be introduced at a man's trial. But Gideon was the first sign of the court's concern for protecting accused criminals who may not be able to defend themselves. It was followed by Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), which held that a suspect may not be prevented from seeing his lawyer during a police interrogation. The most controversial decision of all was Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which called on the police to warn a suspect of his rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer before being questioned. Otherwise, said the court...
...typing error, the second sentence of the Committee's statement states that the petition asks the Committee to "neither sever nor suspect any student found to be involved" in the occupation. The word suspend should be substituted for suspect, Rosenblatt said...
...prejudgments are suspect, in and out of court. In any event, the country has a way of educating its Justices?as well as its Presidents?and the Justices, in their turn, have a way of educating the country. A period of consolidation after a decade of hurried innovation may be, as Nixon believes, best for both court and country...
...Some top-ranking Manhattan law firms cooperate in programs that allow younger associates to work one night a week in the ghettos and do follow-up work during the day; Baltimore's Piper & Marbury plans to open an office in the ghetto next fall. Idiosyncrasy is no longer suspect. In some areas the man in the turtleneck is beginning to replace the man in the gray flannel suit. Says Michigan Law Review Editor James Martin: "The firms want to make sure that you meet their guys with mustaches and sideburns. They boast about hiring a Negro -or a woman...