Word: warrantable
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They roared into action when a police radio squawked "QK-7554"-the license number of an oncoming Corvair. "It's a hit!" chortled one cop. "I've got the warrant!" shouted another. The cops flagged down the Corvair, flashed their warrant and arrested the driver-Gloria Placente, 34, a bewildered blonde housewife headed for the beach. Triumphantly, the cops explained their gimmick: a computer miles away had just squealed that Mrs. Placente had neglected to answer a summons after she ran a red light 16 months...
...however, Britain's House of Lords (acting as the country's highest court) discovered a fatal flaw in an Irish arrest warrant. According to an 1851 British law, the warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...back lot at 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood filming three half-hour episodes a week-more than the average movie crew shoots in a month. Thus the production is less polished than a feature film and sometimes barely distinguishable from the commercials Nevertheless, should ratings and sponsorship warrant, the staff stands ready for what could be "the next step" -four segments a week. All shows are filmed, and the stockpile is kept at 30. Thus, to cover Mia Farrow's absence at sea last week, Allison had an auto accident and fell into a coma, anxiously watched over...
...such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...
...last week's key decision, the court confronted a conviction that unquestionably violated Mapp's "exclusionary rule." When New Orleans police arrested Burglary Suspect Victor Linkletter, they took his keys, entered his home without a warrant, and seized the evidence that got him a nine-year rap at hard labor. This occurred in 1958-one year after Miss Mapp's offense. But Linkletter's greatest misfortune was that his conviction became final 15 months before the Supreme Court's Mapp decision. Nonetheless, he appealed on the ground that Mapp should void his conviction...