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...Negro defense attorney, C. B. King, engineered the jury's composition by using 19 of his 20 challenges to eliminate white candidates. He contended that Defendant Charlie Hunter, 15, had committed justifiable homicide last November when he shot John Harden, an Ellaville cop who had arrested Charlie and his brother Willie, 19, for speeding. Charlie testified that Harden had been beating his brother with a club and was about to shoot Willie...
...examine their attitude of total opposition to premarital sex. Another, by Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, proposed a redefinition of obscenity: the really filthy word, he suggested, was not a four-letter Saxonism for sex but the word "nigger" shouted by an Alabama cop...
...circles for the methods that he pioneered. His stiff rules of conduct are now standardized as a code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first to use the lie detector (a Berkeley cop collaborated in inventing the polygraph in 1921); it was an early developer of a fingerprint classification system (1924) and the first to use radio-equipped squad cars...
...gets the sort of man he wants, the chief does not waste him. "It's ridiculous to spend money on an above-average person," says he, "and then admit that he cannot do every phase of police work." When a crime is committed in Berkeley, the beat cop directs all phases of investigation. Backup detectives offer assistance and expertise, but the case is the patrolman's responsibility all the way through the trial. They do the job so well that Judge
Though he was often tempted to cop the color plea, Parks instead searched for ways to win and, extravagantly endowed with talent, he found them. He became a professional basketball player with a showboating Negro team called the House of David, a songwriter whose tunes were broadcast on the networks, the author of a favorably reviewed autobiographical novel (The Learning Tree-TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) and the composer of six musical works that have been performed from Venice to Manhattan. He also became a photographer and, as a LIFE staffer since 1949, Parks has become famous for his photographic work...