Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the stop and frisk law was passed, a thief could sometimes beat arrest in New York even if a cop caught him carrying concealed loot-unless the cop reasonably believed beforehand that a theft had been committed. But even the new New York law is not necessarily constitutional. If detention really means arrest, then it must meet the standards of probable cause. And recent Supreme Court decisions indicate that state courts must exclude evidence seized during searches accompanying arrests made without probable cause. In short, a search cannot be justified by its fruits alone...
Police Detective Dominic Scalese, the investigating officer, reported that after leaving the bank, the thief removed his coat and hat, stuffed them under a parked car, and fled in the direction of Church St. Scalese added that within seven minutes of the crime, 9 detectives and 4 cars full of uniformed policemen were at the scene, only to find that their quarry had escaped...
Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: "Your little babies will get polio!" he cried to the "white devils." His creed was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Solo hires a singer to help trap an international jewel thief...
...twice-convicted thief named Richard Armstead took the stand before U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, D.C., to deny the latest robbery charge against him. Bring out his criminal record, snapped the judge. "Mr. Armstead," the prosecutor dutifully began. But Judge Holtzoff, who is 78 and has been on the bench 20 years, interrupted in a manner unexpected in the scrupulously courteous federal courts. "Don't address defendants as Mister," he said. "Witnesses and counsel should be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, but not the defendant...