Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspect, 62-year-old James Farrell, was arrested Friday night after a 20-year-old woman bank teller spotted him in the subway, followed him to a Boston restaurant, and from there called police...
...Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) decided that the right to have counsel present begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. The court ruled that Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo had been forced to confess to a murder without legal aid. After Danny had spent 41 years in jail, Illinois dropped the charges...
...court has forced all states to observe the full meaning of the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable search and seizure. Items: - Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ordered state courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment. With no warrant, Cleveland police, hunting policy slips and a bombing suspect, had invaded the home of a woman named Dollree Mapp. The most the cops could uncover was "obscene materials," for possession of which Dollree was convicted. Upheld by the Supreme Court, she escaped further prosecution...
...amid charges that the court had "handcuffed police." But Mapp forbade only "unreasonable" search and seizure: Ker upheld the right of Los Angeles police to make an arrest and seizure after they entered a narcotics-peddling couple's apartment without a warrant. The cops had "probable cause" to suspect what they would find. Appellants George and Diane Ker stayed in prison for possession of marijuana...
...well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect..." Yet even before he finished this reflection, Bundie felt something slam into him and knock him off his feet. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a small foreign-looking man with dark glasses scramble up from the ground and rush over...