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...almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector in, the Government went back to court, and a three-judge federal panel agreed with the contractor. Then the Government appealed, and last week the Supreme Court...
...zeal, for more was at stake than the fates of a pair of inept spies. The trial, which ended in the colonial courthouse in Alexandria, Va., last Friday, set the stage for the testing of a crucial constitutional question: whether a U.S. President can order wiretaps without a judicial warrant in cases involving national security...
...beatings and harassment by the police of suspects, their friends and relatives. Often the victims had to be hospitalized for injuries sustained during interrogation at the Roundhouse, Philadelphia's futuristic police headquarters. In one such case recounted by the Inquirer, police raided a house without a search warrant, arrested a murder suspect without an arrest warrant, and beat four members of his family...
...outside, and with coordinating a prison hunger strike. The information they were said to have passed to their jailed clients included treatises on guerrilla warfare, instructions on weapons systems and diagrams of U.S. military bases in West Germany. Croissant was further accused of helping Andreas Baader escape an arrest warrant and bullying an imprisoned gang member into joining the hunger strike...
...Gray and his two aides. LaPrade himself is open to charges of ax-grinding: though unindicted, he was a major target in the FBI probe, and his refusal to tender a requested resignation brought his prompt removal as head of the New York office. In any case, his accusations warrant a thorough airing, and they compel the American people to withhold a hearty round of applause for the judgment shown by Bell and his department. The verdict is still out on Gray and his fellow defendants, and the same should hold true for their prosecutors...