Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiators also rejected a House provision, backed by Bush, that would allow improperly seized evidence to be used in federal court. Instead, the negotiators adopted a Senate provision that would allow such evidence only if police make a "good faith" mistake in executing a search warrant...
However, I recognize that there are particular difficulties with proving sexual harassment, and that these difficulties might warrant some deviation from the innocent-until-proven-guilty standard. But the current subjective standard is inevitably open to abuse. Like most who wish to recognize the rights of both plaintiff and accuser, I will remain skeptical of sexual harassment law and some sexual harassment charges until a more objective standard can be devised. And until then I will continue to give at least some benefit of the doubt to the accused, as I did in the case of Justice Thomas...
...credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government had no connection with Inam, who was arrested by German authorities in Frankfurt last month on an international warrant...
...First, because ((the Colombian secret police known as)) DAS, the army and the police have a warrant to arrest me, and I'm sure they'd comply with it the moment they saw me; and second, because if I get caught by the authorities, I'm afraid that Mr. Pablo Escobar would have me killed...
...Voting 6 to 3, the Justices decided that police may search a bus passenger's baggage if he agrees, even if they have no warrant or probable cause to suspect him of any crime. "Working the buses," as the police call it, has become a common method of interrupting the interstate flow of drugs. Last week's ruling followed a string of recent decisions that gave police the power to conduct searches without warrants. The court also decided during this term that suspects who were arrested without warrants may be held for up to 48 hours before police press charges...