Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entitled to a fair trial before twelve unbiased jurors. Yet whatever tactics the defense tries - change of venue, peremptory challenges or cautionary instructions to the jury - all may be futile in a day when mass me dia confront potential jurors with everything from the murder weapon to the victim's widow. Such "prejudicial reporting" or pretrial press publicity has caused appellate courts to overturn more and more convictions...
...Pierre can use the help. Though he is still the heavy favorite, Salinger has identified himself as a champion of the controversial antidiscrimination Rumford Fair Housing Act. A current battle to repeal it has stirred such soaring passion in Califor nia that he could conceivably become the victim of a white protest vote. At any rate, Pierre would now be able to campaign as the incumbent, with three months of seniority to lay before the voters...
Citizen's arrest goes back to medieval England, when the "hue and cry" raised by a criminal's victim obliged any bystander to join the chase and catch the felon. Forerunner of the Wild West posse, the hue and cry was then England's only reliable method of law enforcement. But ever since 1829, when Sir Robert Peel fathered London's bobbies, the existence of fulltime police forces has made citizen's arrest so rare and unnecessary that it now seems to bring more peril than protection...
...incredibly small bits of physical evidence, such as the infinitesimal traces of gunpowder left on the hand of someone who has fired a gun. N.A.A. helped to win a Canadian murder conviction in 1959 by matching the accused's hair with tiny hair samples found on the victim. The first such U.S. conviction occurred last winter in a New York federal court, which accepted N.A.A. evidence as proof that the soil found on a truck hauling illicit liquor matched the soil around a moonshiner's still in Georgia...
...Killers, nominally based on a vigorous short story by Ernest Hemingway, seems to borrow most of its inspiration from the Marquís de Sade. In 1946, the Hemingway story triggered a crisp crime thriller starring Burt Lancaster as the willing victim gunned down by hired assassins. The latest version, with John Cassavetes, was designed as a full-length feature for television, then was bucked along to theater exhibitors when NBC decided that its burly blend of sex and brutality might loom rather large on the home screen...