Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suspect. Mapp's purpose was to make state police observe the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Until then, courts in about half the states admitted illegally seized evidence-typically, the fruit of searches made without lawful warrants. Thus in 1957, Cleveland police without a warrant invaded the home of a woman named Dollree Mapp on a tip that they would discover policy slips and a bombing suspect. Finding neither, the cops handcuffed Miss Mapp and searched on until they found "obscene material." She was charged with possession of it and was convicted. When the Supreme Court...
...climb. The producers were hesitant about investing in Dr. No, but the success of From Russia with Love tempted them to pour millions into the special effects of Goldfinger and even more into the forthcoming Thunderball. The elaborate settings are half the fun of James Bond pictures, and J suspect that their mounting ventures will, like Bond's own, surely...
...Principle. The confession problem stems from the court's own decision last June in Escobedo v. Illinois, which voided a Chicago murder confession because the police had refused to let the suspect see his lawyer. Escobedo seemed to establish a new principle: that a grilled suspect has a constitutional right to see his lawyer-and by inference, to be told he has a right to silence. But did the court's ruling mean that police must now advise all suspects of their rights to counsel and silence (a standard FBI rule), lest all voluntary confessions be automatically tossed...
...stabbed to death in self-service elevators with a total of 52 knife thrusts. Last week the police arrested Charles E. Wright, 21, a Columbia University kitchen helper. But in sharp contrast to previous cases, the cops made no effort to trumpet their triumph. They refused to say whether Suspect Wright confessed, or even whether he has a police record...
...with Trujillo. Though no formal charges were placed against Hommel, Finance Minister Roger Bonvin said that "it is possible to suspect that the president of the Banking Commission had violated the duties of his office...