Word: warrantedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resort near Aspen, Colo. Crested Butte wanted to use 2,000 acres of federal land on nearby Mount Snodgrass for a second, $45 million ski area. The U.S. Forest Service tentatively turned down the proposal in January 1975 on grounds that Crested Butte did not draw enough skiers to warrant the expansion...
...ruling the day before by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who held that material taken from the apartment could not be used in the forthcoming state trial of the Harrises because it had been seized by FBI agents who had not obtained the necessary search warrant.* Browning wanted to show the jury some of these materials, which covered the year before Patty was arrested, on the grounds that they indicated that she had actively cooperated with the S.L.A. in "casing banks" instead of having been, as she claimed, an unwilling captive of the terrorist band...
...attorneys claimed that the incriminating gun should not have been used as evidence because the vagrancy statute invoked to arrest him was later ruled impermissibly vague. Rice's lawyers contended that the explosives found in his house should not have been admitted in court because the search warrant was found afterward to have been issued without sufficient cause...
...been used in a liquor-store shooting the day before in San Bernardino, Calif. Powell, now 29, was convicted of the killing. In August 1970, police in Omaha were angrily investigating the bombing murder of a fellow officer; though they had little to go on, they got a search warrant from a local magistrate, went through the house of David Rice, a member of a Black Panther group, and found 14 Ibs. of dynamite and other bomb ingredients. Rice, now 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment...
Like fishermen who come back emptyhanded, prosecutors and police endlessly complain about the ones who got away. Especially galling are those who escape because of legal rules: drug pushers caught dirty but without the proper search warrant, Mafiosi discovered through an illegal wiretap, thugs with guns whose car was stopped by cops acting without probable cause. In such cases, the catchall-or lose-all-complication is the exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence seized illegally may not be used in court...