Word: suspects
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...piggledy complex of tired-looking trailers parked alongside grain silos and stock pens, four white-coated scientists are investigating crimes with the tools of 21st century forensics. They're testing hairs found on a blanket wrapped around a victim of rape and murder, trying to match them to a suspect's dog. They're analyzing the DNA of two Pekingese killed during a robbery to determine if a suspect was at the scene of the crime. They're looking for a match between stray hairs left at a murder scene and DNA taken from the suspect...
...Within days of Jill's abduction by the so-called ?Brigade of Vengeance,? it was being condemned by many senior religious and political figures. On the streets of Baghdad, too, there was nothing but criticism for the kidnappers. I suspect that the kidnappers' demand for the release of women prisoners was designed to soften that criticism and justify their holding Jill. Their message: Yes, we kidnapped a woman, but only to secure the release of other women...
...recommended that Michigan not renew its contracts with the company, which expired on Jan. 1. We can’t help but express skepticism about the logic used by Michigan to end its contract with Coke. Both its process and its weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power to conduct independent investigations on its own, the DRB was reduced to entertaining the accusations and counter-arguments from all parties in order to divine the truth about allegations. The very difficulty of this method of establishing facts is why the DRB demanded Coke?...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...judge, a position in which he has overwhelmingly favored police and the government in criminal cases. He defended the strip search of a 10-year-old girl, saying drug dealers sometimes use children to help with their crimes. He ruled that evidence obtained by the FBI while monitoring a suspect for several months in his hotel suite without a warrant was permissible because police turned on video cameras only when an informant who was cooperating with officers entered the suspect's hotel room. In an opinion later overturned by the Supreme Court, he upheld a man's death sentence?even...