Word: warrant
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EARLY IN THE MORNING OF JUNE 13, 1994, the phone rang in the home of Marcia Clark. She immediately recognized the voice on the other end. It was Detective Philip Vannatter of the L.A.P.D., reporting a double murder and requesting the deputy district attorney's help in obtaining a warrant to search a suspect's home. To Clark it all seemed routine, if gruesome, until she heard one specific detail. "God," she said, "sounds like a pretty tony address for this kind of thing...
Vannatter went on, enumerating more reasons for a search warrant: blood on the door handle of Simpson's white Bronco, blood on the driveway at his Rockingham mansion, the bloody glove found by Vannatter's junior associate, Mark Fuhrman...
...Jesus," said Clark, "It sounds like you've got enough for filing [an arrest warrant], much less a search warrant...
...much needed crash course in Fourth Amendment rights. "I think there's just a sense out there of, 'I'm never going to be charged in a criminal case, so what the hell should I care if the police go over my wall and search without a warrant?' I think we've got a job to do in terms of convincing people that we really are all winners when that system is respected." Peter Barnett of Forensic Science Associates, a DNA lab in Richmond, California, acknowledges the nightmare created by attacks on incautious handling of blood specimens. "People...
...apparently that is not the case. The index, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, "overestimates the true cost of living." As a result, some experts say, over the past few decades the Federal Government has doled out $300 billion more in benefits than the true inflation rate would warrant...