Word: detained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complexities of arrest, some states have invented "pre-arrest detention." This device was designed to permit police to act on "reasonable suspicion" rather than the higher standard of "reasonable belief." Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire have adopted the Uniform Arrest Act, which allows a policeman to stop, question, detain and frisk any person "whom he has reasonable ground to suspect" of having committed a crime. Unless there is probable cause for actual arrest, the person must be released after two hours...
Jocelin discovers his own sexuality with a jolt, in his passionate guilt toward the woman he had used to detain the Master Builder. He begins to question the pious motives which led him to marry her, his "daughter in God," to an important church sweeper. But even here some of the circumstances seem arbitrary. The spire's mysterious patroness turns out to have been the dead king's mistress, angling for immortality. The news that this woman also has supervised his rise in the church hastens Jocelin further into delirium...
...bundled back into the cells. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng cynically explained that their acquittal "was the sole responsibility of the judiciary, not of the government, which is therefore not bound to take any cognizance of it." They will remain in jail under a law that permits the government to detain any citizen for ten years without trial "in order to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to Ghana's security...
Work or Else. In their zeal the soldiers were showing a pronounced impatience with due process of law. "We can arrest, detain and punish anyone," snapped Chang...
...public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition of English law are compelled to introduce such measures," said Sir Evelyn, but the British strongly fear that Northern Rhodesia may yet become another Kenya...