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...evidence it had gotten in the case by means of wiretapping. Attorney General Mitchell responded by submitting a lengthy memorandum to Judge Hoffman in which he argued that the government was entitled to bug any person intending to "attack and subvert the government by unlawful means"-without obtaining a warrant. In such cases, the need to protect the national security was of greater importance than the Fourth Amendment's general requirement that the government obtain a warrant before establishing a wiretap. Judge Hoffman accepted the Justice Department position and admitted the evidence obtained by wiretap at the trial. This...
...January, another Federal district Court judge, Damon J. Keithe, ruled in a case involving three White Panthers that the Justice Department was not entitled to place wiretaps on domestic "subversives" without a warrant. White Panthers John Sinclair. John Forest, and Lawrence (Pun) Plumondon are on trial in Detroit for conspiring to bomb a CIA office in that city. Plumondon has also been charged with actually bombing the office-on September 29, 1968. Judge Keith ordered the Justice Department to turn over logs from its wire taps to the defendants so that their lawyers could determine whether or not the government...
group; and third, those in the surrounding area. It gave different punishments to each group. Fink was in the second group, and the Committee deemed this serious enough to warrant suspension...
...engaged wholeheartedly in peace negotiations under the aegis of U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Jarring this week will submit a progress report on his talks to Secretary-General U Thant, who will then report to the Security Council. Thant is expected to suggest that there has been enough movement to warrant a continuation of the ceasefire. He is also likely to propose that the Big Four-the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France -issue a similar call for extension of the ceasefire. The U.S. will do this, but no more. Washington feels that the Arabs have deliberately been holding back...
...argued during the hour-long hearing that the search warrant which netted the evidence from Coolidge's car was issued by the chief prosecutor, the then state attorney general William Maynard, instead of "a neutral and detached magistrate." Cox said that the reasons given for the warrant were insufficient to determine probable cause and that the police lacked a warrant when they seized a rifle and some clothing from Coolidge's home...