Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strauss & Co., Schroder is also suspect for his views on Oder-Neisse, although his public words on the subject have been conventional enough. Recently, he expressed the government's view on the church memorandum: "We must not abandon or weaken our position in regard to the German eastern territories," he said, "unless there is a relation to the reunification problem." His colleague in the C.D.U., Hamburg Party Chairman Erik Blumenfeld, went a long step farther. "A solution of the border question," he said, "can only be reached by balancing the interests of the two parties involved. The overwhelming interest...
...Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year sentence for smuggling narcotics. Later he appealed, basing his argument on the Supreme Court's controversial 1964 decision Escobedo v. Illinois, which ruled that when investigation shifts to accusation, police must tell all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel-and that any confession made without such warning is invalid and cannot be used against the suspect...
...Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, for example, called "essential to conviction" in 50% of the city's murders. And with no clarifying word from the Supreme Court, Escobedo has sharply divided lower courts across the country. Many take the "hard" line that a confession is inadmissible only if the suspect had a lawyer and was not allowed to consult him. By contrast, the California Supreme Court ruled last January that police failure to warn a suspect of his rights to silence and to counsel now voids his confession even though he makes no formal request for a lawyer...
...commands Government to prove guilt by independent evidence, not by coercing the proof out of the defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation-the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict him at the trial...
...Fifth Amendment bars the use of any confession that police extract from a suspect by brutality. Indeed, it bars any conceivable kind of coercion, including the most subtle threats or promises. But the point where such coercion starts is often difficult to define. As a result, the FBI, which gathers evidence for federal courts in which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds...