Word: warrants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. had consorted with Mafia figures, conspired in illegal activities and engaged in improper fund raising for President Reagan's 1980 campaign. Phase 2 of the inquiry began just seven weeks after Silverman had closed the books for lack of enough evidence to warrant an indictment. New accusations were raised that Donovan had met with known mobsters to arrange no-show jobs for Mafiosi at Schiavone work sites. Donovan consistently denied all the allegations, last week branding them "groundless charges made by nameless accusers...
...dead: Lance Corporal Jeffery Young, 19; Lieut. Anthony Daly, 23; Trooper Simon Tipper, 19; Corporal Major Roy Bright, 36; Bandsman George Mesure, 19; Bandsman Keith Powell, 24; Warrant Officer 2 Graham Barker, 36; Corporal John McKnight, 30; Bandsman Laurence Smith, 19; Sergeant Robert Livingstone...
...proper and effective administration of public affairs." Over the years, small, scattered openings were occasionally made in this wall. Then, in 1971, the high court punched the first major hole by ruling that federal narcotics agents who had entered a New York City couple's apartment without a warrant were subject to personal liability suits. In subsequent rulings, the court limited the immunity enjoyed by state officials-and then U.S. Cabinet officers-by denying them protection if their actions were taken in disregard of the law or with malicious intent. Last week the Justices had an opportunity to chip...
...trouble started back in Prohibition. Two bootleggers were stopped in their car by federal agents, who ripped out the rumble-seat upholstery and found 68 bottles of gin and whisky. The officers had obtained no warrant allowing the search, but in a 1925 decision, the Supreme Court declared that because cars were mobile, warrantless searches were legal if police had probable cause to believe that contraband was in the vehicle. Ever since, court majorities have been swerving from side to side, trying to define the extent of that exception to the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure rules...
...author of the prevailing opinion, Potter Stewart, has since retired. Now a new majority, including his replacement, Sandra Day O'Connor, has decided that the Justices erred last July. Since a warrantless auto search (with probable cause) is as legal as a regular search with a warrant, then the same guidelines apply, reasoned Justice John Paul Stevens in last week's decision. "When a legitimate search is under way, and when its purpose and its limits have been precisely defined, nice distinctions between . . . glove compartments, upholstered seats, trunks and wrapped packages . . . must give way to the interest...