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March 15, 7 :36 p.m.--Bryan McCullough, aged 21 of Syosset, N.Y. was arrested in Quincy House for trespassing Upon checking his record, the police discovered that be was wanted by the Somerville Police Department for breaking and entering, by the `Cambridge police Department for a default warrant and by the Arlington Police Department for a traffic warrants...
...anonymous letter to police in Bloomingdale, Ill., reported that Lance and Susan Gates had more than $100,000 worth of drugs in their basement and that they "make their living on selling drugs." Prompted by the letter, officers made a preliminary investigation, went to a magistrate, got a warrant, searched the Gates home and car and found more than 350 lbs. of marijuana, along with drug paraphernalia, weapons and ammunition. A good bust of two suspected drug traffickers? Not exactly. Instead, that case turned out to be potentially the most important test of the search-and-seizure rules...
Before the Gateses went on trial, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the anonymous tip and preliminary investigation did not provide probable cause to issue a warrant. The court threw out all the discovered physical evidence because of the much reviled exclusionary rule, which holds that the fruits of an illegal search may not be used against the defendant in court. The U.S. Supreme Court last year considered arguments on the legality of the warrant in the Gates case, but then unexpectedly asked the lawyers to return to debate a proposition not previously at issue in the case: Should there...
Steiner suggested in the letter that the possible problem of a non-registrant's collecting financial aid "does not warrant the elaborate administrative process and the distortion of the relationship between students and their university...
...slain U.S. marshals had an arrest warrant for Kahl, who had violated the terms of his probation after being convicted in Midland, Texas, in 1977 of failing to file federal income tax returns in 1973 and 1974. He had not reported to a probation officer in North Dakota, as required, and he had associated with "known tax-violator groups," in this case, the Posse Comitatus (power of the county). This loosely organized, insignificantly small, ultra-right-wing group, which has isolated chapters mainly in the rural Midwest, respects only one official: a county sheriff. It opposes all other government officials...