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...number of palm-printed abnormalities up to 20. And although most such disorders involve chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that the print was reflected and magnified, and could be photographed with a Polaroid camera...
...downtown Richmond, Va., while a car blocked the intersection. The driver, busily chatting with a friend out the window, would not move on. His patience exhausted, the pedestrian finally bolted across the hood of the auto. Unfortunately for him, the driver turned out to be an off-duty policeman who promptly haled him to court, where he was charged with malicious mischief and fined...
...everything four policemen allege against turn is true, Proctor opened his car door into a policeman, and came out of the car with his tests raised. In return for that be received a beating which left him badly bruised when a doctor saw him two and a half days later. Proctor says he was first hit while being arrested, later while being taken to the police station, and again at the station...
Although a policeman may arrest any one whom he has "reasonable grounds to believe" committed a specific crime, a prosecutor is not supposed to bring charges unless he has "probable cause" to believe that the suspect is guilty. In short, is the evidence gathered by the police probably strong enough to try and convict the defendant...
...becomes convinced of the importance of personal as well as political relationships. For example, Councillor Maher's dislike of both Crane and Curry--particularly Curry--stretches back to 1963, when Maher first ran for the City Council and finished tenth, one place away from being a winner. A policeman then, Maher was switched from the detective section to the traffic division. He labelled the transfer political punishment and blamed both Curry and Crane...