Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trophy, a pitcher homelier than Warren Spahn, was captured by Commodore John Cox Stevens' schooner America for blitzing 15 British boats in a race around the Isle of Wight promoting London's Great Exhibition of 1851. The N.Y.Y.C. insisted that the first challengers sail in solitude against a fleet of defenders and, in the interest of good seaworthy construction, travel to the site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened...
...rule, and one of them, Byron White, said in his separate opinion last week that a "good faith" exception should be created. But, citing procedural reasons, other Justices backed off the issue for now. Instead, the majority turned to another issue in the case and chipped away at two Warren Court rulings to make the issuing of search warrants easier...
...Gateses had taken a trip to Florida, just as the letter predicted they would. Police were waiting when the couple returned home; the resulting search turned up 350 Ibs. of marijuana in the car trunk. The Gateses claimed that the police, in seeking the warrant, had not met the Warren Court's "two-pronged" requirement: that they show what the informant's "basis of knowledge" was, and that they demonstrate why they believed the informant...
...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...
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi moved to L.A. from Kaseda, Japan, in 1964 to make money. After 19 years building up his Mitsuru Restaurant in Little Tokyo, he speaks only Japanese. Unlike Warren Furutani, though, Yamaguchi, 51, is untroubled by cultural contradictions. Says he: "I am not worried about the 'Americanization' of my two children. They were born here, and their styles are different." The odds...