Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mallory v. U.S. (1957) required there be prompt arraignment of a criminal suspect...
Botched Again. Law-enforcement men working on the case tend to discount such theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
...Amendment specifically bar "unreasonable searches and seizures?" It does indeed, said the Supreme Court last week, but the operative word is "unreasonable." Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Chief Justice Warren held that the Constitution permits a policeman to accost an individual if there is good reason to suspect that he is up to no good, and to search him for weapons if there is good reason to suspect that he may be armed...
...line was drawn in the case of a narcotics offender whom Brooklyn Patrolman Anthony Martin had been watching for eight hours. The man had repeatedly been in the company of known addicts, but Officer Martin had not seen or heard anything else suspicious. Nonetheless, he approached the suspect and told him: "You know what I am after." The suspect reached into his pocket and so, simultaneously, did Martin. The policeman grabbed a packet of heroin. In reversing the resulting narcotics conviction, the court ruled that Martin did not have a good reason to stop the man; merely being...
...meantime, all three networks had video tapes of the agonizing ballroom scene: Kennedy supporters with cheers choking in their throats, panicky cries for doctors, hysterical sobs and terror. ABC showed George Plimpton wrestling the gun away from the suspect, and all three networks had views of the man as he was hauled off in the custody of a wall of policemen. NBC's Sander Vanocur, who had finished his primary coverage, rushed back to work and found eyewitnesses, whom he debriefed expertly one or two at a time...