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...prove that a suspect who does talk, "knowingly," waived his rights to silence and to counsel. Unless the police take movies or make tape recordings, they and defendants may be right back where they started: the traditional "swearing contest" in which a court must weigh the policeman's word against that of the defendant. And what of "poisonous fruits," meaning an illegal confession's leads to other telltale evidence? Since the court has not yet said that such fruits of a confession are inadmissible, police will be tempted to use them...
...warning. When accosting a foreign policeman, only one form is acceptable: "Excuse me, kind, brave and gracious sir, but could...
...fevered hunt for the killer, Speck was in the grasp of Chicago police. Twice in that time the cops walked away without a glimmering that the troubled young man on their hands was the nation's most wanted suspect. And though on one occasion he even told a policeman that his name was Richard Speck, in the end it was not a law officer but a young, unarmed doctor who recognized Speck and had him arrested...
...water in a glass. I knew that I was lying on my back on the grass. I could feel the shiny blades on my neck. Bright little points glittered all down the front of the liquid man kneeling beside me. I knew at once that he was a policeman, and I thought he was performing some ritual operation on me. There was a confusion in my mind between being brought to life-forceps, navel-cords, midwives -and being put to death-ropes, axes and black masks; but whatever it was that was happening, I felt that all men came...
...companion case, dissenting Judge John Van Voorhis protested that the policeman involved was only "allegedly" frisking for a weapon when he discovered a supply of heroin in the defendant's pockets. "Without probable cause," said Van Voorhis, "the frisk discovered the heroin, then the heroin served as a basis for arrest, which, in turn, was claimed to justify the search which disclosed it." Judge Van Voorhis insisted that a frisk should be tightly limited to its only legitimate purpose: "To discover and seize dangerous weapons." If it becomes "a general search of the person" in patent violation...