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...Point--cadets who do the minimum and try constantly to skirt the rules--but they are clearly in the minority. Some people break the rules against drug use, but for most, it isn't worth the consequences of resigning your commission and leaving the academy. "Drugs are a death warrant here," one officer explains. "You might as well pack your bags...
THERE ARE NO FLIES on John McPhee, only the slightest lines of sweat, not enough body odor to warrant mention. His writing is clean, disinfected. Everybody says his prose shines; as usual, everybody is right. But it's the comfortable shine of a well-oiled set of carpenter's tools, fresh from a whetstone. No dancing hot shine of flame, nc shine of the evening ahead playing off fender chrome...
Until now. Sheriffs deputies in Boise, Idaho, armed with a search warrant, burst into television station KBCI'S newsroom two weeks ago. They were looking for video-taped interviews with inmates at the Idaho state penitentiary conducted by Reporter Bob Loy during a prison riot last month. As a dismayed Loy and his colleagues watched helplessly, the police spent 90 min. rummaging through their files and desk drawers before locating the tapes they wanted. Last week KBCI filed a civil complaint against the state and the local prosecutor claiming infringement of their First Amendment rights. Only two months earlier...
Unlike a search warrant, which requires no advance notice, a subpoena can be challenged in court before it is carried out. Says Harvard Law Professor Arthur R. Miller: "The search warrant should be used only as a last resort, when every other avenue of investigation has been exhausted." This, Miller feels, would prevent prosecutors from "living off journalists in a parasitical manner" when the information sought may be available elsewhere. Says he: "The prosecution should not be allowed to go fishing...
...suspect's right to counsel was violated when the FBI used a prison mate as an informer (U.S. vs. Henry), and the Fourth Amendment was found to bar police from entering a man's home to arrest him for a felony unless they have an arrest warrant (Payton vs. New York...