Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after taking office, the Nixon Administration claimed the right to eavesdrop-without a judicial warrant -on anyone it chose to consider a threat to the national security. By the time the issue reached the Supreme Court, Nixon had appointed four new Justices, so the Government thought its chances of enforcing the claim seemed promising. But last week, by a vote of 8 to 0, with Justice William Rehnquist abstaining, the court declared that bugging or tapping domestic political "suspects" without a warrant is illegal. "Those charged with this investigative and prosecutorial duty should not be the sole judges...
Roofing Contractor John Conforti had just finished dinner when the bell rang at his $65,000 split-level home in Massapequa, L.I. There on the porch stood two agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs with a warrant to search for $4,000,000 in profits from the sale of heroin. Would he surrender the money? Conforti said he didn't know anything about it. The two then summoned some 20 more agents waiting near by, armed with sledgehammers, crowbars and other wrecking equipment...
Conforti, 48, has no criminal record and says he will sue to recover his losses. His lawyer argues that "the search warrant just says they can search -not search and destroy. This isn't Viet
...should pay Conforti is also unclear. The Federal Government can plead "sovereign immunity." The individual narcotics agents would be able to claim that they are protected as agents of the Government if they can prove that they acted in "good faith" on the instructions of the search warrant. The bureau's associate regional director, Frank Monastero, who supervised the search, regrets only the failure to find any loot. "We didn't send in a lot of guys with instructions of 'you pound here' and 'you pound there,' " he says. "We went through a series...
...will not be easy. The Davis authorship of the unsigned typescript was verified by prison officials who did not get a warrant before checking her typewriter; the defense objected and lost, but it will again charge an invasion of privacy if an appeal becomes necessary. Even more complications arise from the fact that the diary was written eleven months after the Shootout, when Miss Davis was already in jail. The jury might well forget that the diary's strong words are not necessarily a reflection of her feelings just before the kidnaping. The key question, therefore, is whether...