Word: tacitly
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...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...
...followed in much of the U.S. Now the anachronism is under heavy fire. In Miranda v. Arizona last June, the Supreme Court held that confessions from persons in custody are inadmissible unless the suspect was clearly informed of his rights to silence and to counsel before being questioned. Can tacit admissions to the police survive that holding...
...stealing from his employer, Bethlehem Construction Worker Joseph Dravecz had stood mute when police read his accuser's statement to him. Dravecz was convicted largely on the basis of his silence. By a vote of 6 to 1, though, the high court reversed the conviction and voided the tacit-admission rule in Pennsylvania...
...accident that the Democrats have controlled New York City for so many years. In exchange for a certain number of patronage jobs the Republicans have long had a tacit agreement with the Democrats not to seriously challenge their leadership. In the recent brought presidency election in Queens, for example, the Republicans did not even field a candidate...
Birth control, for the Dutch, is another closed question. Surveys indicate that 60% of Catholic women in The Netherlands practice contraception, most of them with the tacit approval of their parish priests. One of them is Mrs. Tine Govaart, a mother of three, and a leading Catholic laywoman who attended the first two sessions of Vatican II as an unofficial observer and journalist. "I started taking the pill when I was attending the council," she says. Mrs. Govaart also challenges church teaching on the sinfulness of premarital sex. "It is ridiculous to assume that intercourse should end in marriage...