Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after a Chicago restaurant was burglarized one night last week, Policeman Richard Kereta spotted a man running down the street. Kereta collared the suspect when he stopped to urinate under a porch. "I didn't do nothin' and I ain't answering questions," said Danny Escobedo, 28, as he was taken to the police station and plunked into a cell. Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) well knew his rights: they were first limned in the Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission in 1964 (Escobedo v. Illinois), and amplified last June when the court applied...
...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
Conceding that "this sort of thing is embarrassing," Fort Worth's top police announced a new policy: lie-detector tests for any suspect who requests one. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr suggested that the same policy may be advisable throughout the state. Amid all the good intentions, though, no one paid much heed to the hazards, notably the possibility of testing error and the fact that from now on, police may well assume the guilt of suspects who refuse the tests...
...pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and perspiration flow. The obvious weakness is not the machine but the man who interprets it. One study found that a good polygrapher is wrong three out of ten times. But no one really knows. A bad polygrapher can easily misread emotionally disturbed subjects, a suspect who, contrary to good polygraph policy, has been subjected to extended questioning just before testing, or even a badly frightened innocent. No American court yet admits lie-detector evidence without agreement providing for its admission...
Judge Miles has just voided his June decision and assigned Kruse's estate to Eugenia-Rosemary, who had never heard of Uncle Arthur, though he obviously knew about her. Neither Eugenia's illegitimacy nor her adoption barred her $1,600,000 windfall. Those who knew Kruse suspect that he left no will because he recoiled from exposing Sister Ann's secret. If so, he gambled on the small-town probate court's ability to discover Eugenia. Fortunately for her, his gamble paid...