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Even though the formal ruling to "continue" the case for six months did not carry a judgement as to Chamberlain's gulit or innocence. Murphy said that the student admitted sufficient fact to warrant a finding of guilty...
...case that started all this involved two suspected drug traffickers, Lance and Susan Gates of Bloomingdale, III., whom police had learned about from an anonymous letter. They sought a search warrant after confirming that the Gateses had taken a trip to Florida, just as the letter predicted they would. Police were waiting when the couple returned home; the resulting search turned up 350 Ibs. of marijuana in the car trunk. The Gateses claimed that the police, in seeking the warrant, had not met the Warren Court's "two-pronged" requirement: that they show what the informant's "basis...
...Supreme Court, however, held that the old Warren Court rulings had created a "complex superstructure of evidentiary and analytical rules." It was time, wrote Justice Rehnquist, to return to less rigid restrictions and allow a magistrate issuing a warrant to "make a practical, common sense decision whether, given all the circumstances ... there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place." The result, says a pleased Sue Johnson, top official of the Police Executive Research Forum, is that "officers will seek search warrants more frequently." At the same time, defense attorneys...
Kahl had been wanted on murder charges since a shootout last February at Medina, N. Dak., in which two federal marshals were killed. The marshals had been trying to serve a warrant on Kahl for violating his parole on a 1977 conviction for failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes...
...looked like Kahl was spotted near Smithville riding in a car that belonged to the son of Leonard and Norma Ginter, who occupied the bunker-like house and were said to be sympathizers of the tax-protest movement. When Arkansas officials gathered enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, the raid was organized. As the heavily armed police officers positioned themelves around the house, Sheriff Gene Matthews and three other men went up to he front door. The Ginters were taken into custody. Then the sheriff stepped inside the house. He was immediately cut down by a bullet from Kahl...