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...smaller New England towns still have the traditional all day meetings with a communal lunch between seasons; Ispwich's telescoped version preserves only parts of the older form. The meeting considers all important matters of town policy for the coming year, which are listed in an agenda, (called the "warrant.") Any group of citizens can enter a question in this warrant by petition...
Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
Squalid Defrauder. The case itself concerned one Albert Rabinowitz-"a squalid little defrauder," Frankfurter called him -who was arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting postage stamps. He was picked up in his one-room Manhattan office, which the arresting U.S. Treasury officers promptly searched. The majority opinion rested on the contention that the search & seizure of stamps as evidence were incidental to a valid arrest and did not extend beyond the room used for unlawful purposes...
...person and to take the stuff on top of the desk at which he sits has a justification of necessity which does not eat away the great principle of the Fourth Amendment. But to assume that this exception of a search incidental to arrest permits a freehanded search without warrant is to subvert the purposes of the Fourth Amendment by making the exception displace the principle ... By the Bill of Rights, the founders of this country subordinated police action to legal restraints not in order to convenience the guilty but to protect the innocent . . . They knew too well that...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...