Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missionary, Cohen does not condemn LSD absolutely. But he declares "one can validly suspect the principle of any spiritual movement which does not encourage its members to work within society to change the social environment for the better...
...these troubling cases were direct results of the Supreme Court's sweeping decision in Miranda v. Arizona (TIME, June 24). Applying the Fifth Amendment guarantee against selfincrimination, the court ruled that every suspect must now be "warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning, if he so desires...
...truth, we can't solve cases. If we can't talk to the accused, whom can we talk to? The victim is often either dead or missing." Cincinnati Prosecutor Melvin Rueger complains, "Guilt or innocence is no longer the issue. The prime issue is whether a suspect was searched, interrogated or detained." Minneapolis Chief Calvin Hawkinson hits the "tone" of the ruling: "The emphasis of the court's decision is on individual rights and the public be damned, at a time when the crime rate is increasing...
Unanswered Questions. Though Miranda's specification of police procedure was unusually precise for a Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way." Does this include even a few minutes of street-corner interrogation? How can police obey Miranda's command to furnish lawyers for indigent suspects? Most communities, especially in the South, have neither money nor means to do so. Says Birmingham Chief Jamie Moore: "We don't even have...
...acknowledged its soaring crime rate by creating a new "Ministry for the Protection of Public Peace," which will nationalize the country's sorely beset police forces. While sharply boosting police powers and urging more prowl cars, the Kremlin freed Russians of any liability for injury done to a suspect in making a citizen's arrest...