Word: warranting
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Local police officials, however, suspected a drug overdose and obtained a search warrant to look through Kennedy's bags. They found slightly less than one gram of heroin. Four days later, Pennington County State's Attorney Rod Lefholz ordered the arrest of Bobby Kennedy for possession of heroin, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a $2,000 fine. Kennedy is expected to be arraigned in Rapid City some time in the next two weeks...
Helicopter tactics were still in the experimental stage when Warrant Officer Mason arrived at An Khe in 1965. Nobody knew much of anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...
...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...
Even though the formal ruling to "continue" the case for six months did not carry a judgement as to Chamberlain's gulit or innocence. Murphy said that the student admitted sufficient fact to warrant a finding of guilty...
...Supreme Court, however, held that the old Warren Court rulings had created a "complex superstructure of evidentiary and analytical rules." It was time, wrote Justice Rehnquist, to return to less rigid restrictions and allow a magistrate issuing a warrant to "make a practical, common sense decision whether, given all the circumstances ... there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place." The result, says a pleased Sue Johnson, top official of the Police Executive Research Forum, is that "officers will seek search warrants more frequently." At the same time, defense attorneys...