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Unwittingly Unlawful. Arrest is almost always lawful when police produce a judge-signed warrant specifying the charges, which the person arrested is entitled to read. Local police, however, rarely have the opportunity to use arrest warrants. Unlike federal agents, they confront hit-run crimes that leave little time for investigation to nail down probable cause. Typically, local police arrest first, then question suspects to build cases...
Even so, arrest without a warrant is perfectly constitutional when police reasonably believe that a felony has been committed and that the person to be arrested committed it. Police may also arrest anyone for misdemeanors that constitute a "breach of the peace" committed in their presence. (Threatening someone with a broken bottle would qualify in most courts.) But other kinds of misdemeanors generally require warrants. And because felonies may be confused with misdemeanors, police sometimes unwittingly make unlawful arrests...
...What the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures." As an instance, the court in 1963 upheld the right of California police to make an arrest and search after they entered a narcotics peddler's room with a passkey but without a warrant...
...corporations involved with South Africa was incorrect and misrepresentative in nearly everything stated. Facts both about the demonstrations and the reasons for it were inaccurate. On March 19, there will be demonstrations in Boston, but the demonstrations will consist of picketing and not sit-ins (unless later actions warrant it). The other glaring mistake is the continued mention of trade rather than the more important direct loans and investments, as the center of the protest...
...Yale Tenure Appointments Committee which failed to grant tenure to associate professor of philosophy Richard J. Bernstein last week, has announced it will study new evidence which "would warrant reconsideration of its action...