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Recent changes in the Harvard employees' benefits system have raised enough concern among the Law School faculty to warrant a letter from the dean and the formation of an advisory committee...
...portion of the $1.5 million are for theunmet priorities of the dean. It doesn't seemsensible for us to warrant extreme options likelayoffs," Levinson said. "It seems unduly harsh inthe way it's been carried...
...that glove that defense lawyer Shapiro wanted ruled out of bounds. Shapiro argued that it had been collected during a search without a warrant. According to the exclusionary rule, which enforces the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unlawful searches and seizures, illegally procured evidence cannot be admitted at trial, however vital it may be to proving guilt. Thus for two days, the hearing turned itself inside out as investigating detectives found themselves having to explain their own actions rather than Simpson...
...only 0.43% of the population. Earlier, in a major defeat for the defense, Judge Kennedy-Powell ruled that because police feared an emergency situation after spotting blood on Simpson's Bronco on the night of the murder, they acted properly when they entered Simpson's property without a warrant...
...decisive if the prosecution is permitted to use it at a trial. It came to light only because of a defense motion to suppress 34 items collected by police. Shapiro maintains that they were gathered illegally because detectives searched Simpson's house for nearly six hours before obtaining a warrant. Even the warrant is illegal, he says, because in their effort to get it, police claimed that Simpson had fled when in fact he had taken a long-planned business trip. Under some circumstances -- say, for instance, when police fear that evidence will be destroyed -- warrantless searches are permissible...