Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fourth Amendment admits few exceptions to its stern command that police get judge-signed warrants before searching private homes. When police arrest a suspected felon in a private place, for example, they can then search the immediate premises without a warrant. But they cannot first search hundreds of homes in a blind effort to find him. In short, they must have a warrant to enter a private home unless they have "probable cause" to believe that the suspect is already there...
Ever since Escobedo, many a confessed and convicted criminal had seen the possibility of retroactivity as a hope of getting his case back into court. And now, with Miranda to remind police that just about any question a suspect answers without a lawyer's advice is improper unless he waives his rights, that hope seemed bright indeed. Writing for a 7 to 2 majority, Warren relocked the prison doors. To reopen past cases, he said, "would seriously disrupt the administration of our criminal laws. It would require the retrial and release of numerous prisoners found guilty by trustworthy evidence...
...drunken-driving suspect has enough sense to keep his mouth shut, no policeman can force him to admit how much alcohol he has under his belt. But what if the cop demands a blood sample which will offer the same information, and probably more accurately? A sample the man must give, said the Supreme Court. And then it buckled down to explaining just why a man, who has a constitutional right to silence, must deliver his own blood in testimony against himself...
...fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops who lie about third-degree tactics used to coerce confessions, he claimed, "are destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers." And anyway, he asked, what is wrong with a little pressure on a suspect? "Until today," he answered, "the role of the Constitution has been only to sift out undue pressure...
...executives at Wheeling Steel Corp. suspect that President Robert M. Mor ris is really a set of triplets masquerading as one businessman, much of the blame - or credit - for such a notion belongs to Executive Jet Aviation...