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...such nicety troubled Baltimore's Police Commissioner Bernard J. Schmidt (since resigned under fire), who was understandably anxious to catch Earl and Sam Veney, the Negro brothers who killed one policeman and gravely wounded another while robbing a liquor store on Christmas Eve, 1964. Schmidt set out to catch the Veneys with a flying squad of 50 to 60 men armed with submachine guns, tear gas and bulletproof vests. Acting almost entirely on anonymous tips, which they never verified, the squad spent 19 days in round-the-clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They...
...police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI eventually nabbed them in New York.) Unlike Judge Thomsen, Sobeloff was unmoved by the cops' self-policing order. "The determination of what constitutes probable cause," he said, "is still left to the policeman...
...under stringently limited conditions," said Justice William Brennan, speaking for the slim 5-to-4 majority that was obviously determined to defend the court's earlier admonitions to police, urging them to make more use of scientific crime-detection equipment. For that was just what a Los Angeles policeman was doing after a 1964 auto accident, when he caught a whiff of booze on Armando Schmerber's breath and ordered a doc tor to give Schmerber a blood test, even though the defendant objected on the advice of his attorney...
...Fourth Amendment, Brennan said simply that all searches and seizures are not prohibited-only those "not justified in the circumstances" or "made in an improper manner." In this case, he said, the policeman who ordered the blood test had ample reason to believe the defendant was drunk. Had he taken time to get a warrant, the evidence might have vanished. Besides, the blood was taken in a hospital, under hygienic conditions...
...last week, does not give an individual a license to break the law. The ruling came in the case of 29 demonstrators who had been arrested in Mississippi in 1964 (Greenwood v. Willie Peacock et al.), for such offenses as parading without a permit, obstructing traffic and biting a policeman...