Word: warrantable
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...Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana radio howls daily in Creole. "People of Haiti, rebel against the bloody gang in power...
...Alone. Without a warrant, the police broke into the Wakitas' apartment and car, "found" two small bottles of sleeping pills that Mits said he had never seen. The pills were of a type not to be sold without prescription, and the Wakitas were booked for drug possession. By the time a judge dismissed the charges, Mits and his wife had been fired from their jobs, kicked out of their apartment, ordered to remove Grace's daughters from their school. When Danny argued entrapment and was found not guilty last June, Judge Walter Kowalski denounced the jury...
...shot in the back as he arrived at his slum home on Chicago's West Side one cold January night in 1960. It was a typically clueless crime: no gun was found; there were no witnesses. But 80% of all murders involve friends or relatives, and with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with Lawyer Warren Wolfson, who had once represented...
Mash & Mutuality. Saving a federal defender's time and effort, DePaul Law Students Jay Shapiro and Larry Gabriel recently tackled the case of a Puerto Rican moonshiner. Without a warrant, federal agents had invaded his apartment, found 500 Ibs. of fermenting mash, and then nabbed him outside in a car crammed with sugar. After plumbing assorted precedents, the students informed the defender that the agents indeed had "probable cause" for the warrantless invasion: the mash smell was detected by their own trained noses. Such experiences have persuaded Gabriel to become a prosecutor, Shapiro a criminal lawyer...
...Anyone arrested with a warrant charging a specific crime must be brought forthwith before a magistrate who will inform him of his rights. Those arrested without a warrant must be informed of their rights, but may be held at the station house for taped questioning for up to four hours&-without a lawyer, if the suspect has none. After that, those involved in less serious cases must be either freed or charged. > In serious felonies, such as murder, a suspect may be held for "further screening" (grilling, lineups, etc.), which could extend his detention as long as 22 hours. During...