Word: warrants
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Until now. Sheriffs deputies in Boise, Idaho, armed with a search warrant, burst into television station KBCI'S newsroom two weeks ago. They were looking for video-taped interviews with inmates at the Idaho state penitentiary conducted by Reporter Bob Loy during a prison riot last month. As a dismayed Loy and his colleagues watched helplessly, the police spent 90 min. rummaging through their files and desk drawers before locating the tapes they wanted. Last week KBCI filed a civil complaint against the state and the local prosecutor claiming infringement of their First Amendment rights. Only two months earlier...
Unlike a search warrant, which requires no advance notice, a subpoena can be challenged in court before it is carried out. Says Harvard Law Professor Arthur R. Miller: "The search warrant should be used only as a last resort, when every other avenue of investigation has been exhausted." This, Miller feels, would prevent prosecutors from "living off journalists in a parasitical manner" when the information sought may be available elsewhere. Says he: "The prosecution should not be allowed to go fishing...
...suspect's right to counsel was violated when the FBI used a prison mate as an informer (U.S. vs. Henry), and the Fourth Amendment was found to bar police from entering a man's home to arrest him for a felony unless they have an arrest warrant (Payton vs. New York...
...later he conceded that he had contacted him through Sandalo. He also admitted that he had gone to see Cossiga to learn details about his son's case, but denied that he got any solid information from the Prime Minister. The warning about his son's arrest warrant, he claims, came in an anonymous letter that he says he later destroyed...
...products to South African military police--a resolution ACSR turned down last year. The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which lets ACSR do its research for it, abstained on the resolution because it said the situation in South Africa had not changed enough in the past year to warrant a new policy...