Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Wright's novel Native Son deals with an attack similar to the Wylie case [Feb. 5]. Fortunately, the outcome of Whitmore's case is extremely different, for the lawyers and jury of Wright's novel convicted the Negro suspect and sent him to his death. The disgust I felt after concluding Wright's novel was joy compared to my reaction to the Whitmore case...
After Mrs. Sillan was strangled and her 14-year-old daughter, Gail, was raped, the handyman fled to Soperton, Ga., where he was captured. With Miller safely in jail, a Connecticut county detective and a Westport police sergeant went to Soperton and examined the suspect's car without taking the time or trouble to ask his permission or obtain a search warrant. When the car was brought back to Connecticut, it was examined again-still without a warrant. The upholstery was crawling with samples of Gail Sillan's blood and hair. Despite defense objections, that evidence was admitted...
...possible conflict between a free press's right to report criminal proceedings and a defendant's right to an unprejudiced trial is still the subject of a lively debate. In Britain that conflict has already been resolved in favor of the defendant. Once a suspect has been arrested and charged with a crime, newspaper accounts are largely confined to testimony at his trial. Now the new Labor government has announced its intent to make the restrictions more rigid than ever...
June,*the Supreme Court sharply extended the right to counsel by ruling that it begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. Suspects are now entitled to the physical presence of a lawyer as soon as "the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory-when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession." And predictably, state courts have already found themselves grappling with Escobedo's scope and retroactivity. Items: > In Providence, Escobedo has just reached down as far as traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose...
...writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more suspect than most Frenchmen who perished in the Terror, every one of them enjoyed his day in court and was acquitted...