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...Illegal Search. In one 6-to-3 decision, the court muddied up the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees Americans safety from "unreasonable searches and seizures." The court had often bent over backwards to bar the use of evidence seized illegally (i.e., without search warrants, or by wire tapping) from federal trials. But last week the majority upheld a Colorado state court which had convicted a Denver physician of performing an abortion on evidence obtained without a warrant...
...some respects, the justices were nine broiling brook's in search of a new main stream. Running down one side of the hill were Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton and Vinson. Running down the other side, a more precipitous slope, were Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge. Reed ran back & forth...
...fact, by its zeal in guarding civil rights the court has provoked some sardonic comments in the Department of Justice. Since 1947, the Department of Justice has not won a single search-and-seizure case; in reversing the Government, the court has opened jail doors wide to let known felons out. In the Trupiano case, G-men pinched a gang of bootleggers whom they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt...
...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...than the run of movies are, and would support more adult pictures. But the men from Hollywood did some buck-passing to the audience, too: the public perpetuates the star system, which keeps budgets high and originality at a low ebb; it sometimes passes up good pictures, e.g., The Search, and flocks to trash starring big names; it needles Hollywood for kowtowing to pressure groups, but never organizes to help keep the screen free...