Round the World
| Published date | 01 March 1967 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6704000307 |
| Date | 01 March 1967 |
| Subject Matter | Round the World |
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Round
the
World
Items appearing in police magazines
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CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATION
" I believe
that
the
Supreme
Court
[of
the
U.S.A]
will
soon
...
require
alawyer
~n
the
police
station
for
consultation
before
any
interrogation [of
suspects]
may
proceed"
writes a
former
assistant
state
attorney, assistant
professor
of
law,
North
Western University, Mr. James R.
Thompson,
in
the
Journal
of
Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science. Mr.
Thompson
bases this view primarily
on
the
U.S.A
Supreme
Court
case
of
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) when the
Court
recognized the absolute privilege
of
the
citizen against self-incrimination
and
his constitutional right to
counsel
at
the
police interrogation stage.
A
further
decision by 'the
same
Court,
Miranda v. California (1966), he
claims, has established
the
proposition
that
"Interrogation
cannot
proceed
unless
the
record shows
that
adefendant has
been
warned by
the
police of
his privilege against self-incrimination
and
his right to
counsel".
Looking
again
in
the
future
of
Jaw enforcement in 'the
United
States
and
using the same Supreme
Court
decision as the basis for his argument,
Mr.
Thompson
predicts
that
where apolice officer,
after
receiving information
that
aperson is dealing in unlawful drugs, enters
that
person's home posing
as a customer, evidence obtained in this
manner
will become inadmissible
on
the
ground
that
the
officer " gained his knowledge of
the
crime
through
illegal search 'and
seizure".
"So
long as
the
American people
are
willing to
tolerate
asystem
of
constitutional regulation which in some instances restricts society's power
to deal with criminals on a totally efficient
basis"
Mr.
Thompson
con-
eludes,
"the
police
cannot
be blamed
for
gaps in the
war
against
crime".
MOONSIDNING
"
Moonshining",
the
distilling
of
illicit liquor, is
an
offence
thatis
still
of
frequent concern to
the
police
of
Canada,
although
one
suspects that,
smuggling which
of
oourseit
closely resembles, moonshining
lis
an
offence
that
aili~raets
public acceptance
rather
than
condemnation.
The
current
issue
of
the
RCMP
Quarterly, the magazine
of
the
Royal
Oanadian
Mounted
Police, contains a
report
of
a case investigated in
1965, which shows clearly
that
moonshining is still big business. Police
suspicions were aroused when items normally used in
the
construction of
stills were
found
in
the
possession of a known distributor of illicit liquor.
The
man
was
kept
under
surveillance
and
was
found
to be carrying
out
some
form
of
enterprise on a
farm
25 miles
from
Toronto,
When
'eventu-
ally
the
farm
was
raided
a
pot
still was
found
of
approximately
4O-gallon
capacity.
The
investigating officers, however, were
not
satisfied
that
all
had
been discovered
and
continued
their
search, eventually finding a
small
trap
door
leading to a large basement, separated
from
the
main
basement
under
'the house, where a
large
commeroiaIoolumn
..type still was
found
and
approximately
500 gallons of recently set mash. A
further
500 gals.
of
mash
was found elsewhere.
At
the
time
of
the
discovery
the
still
had
yet to be completed.
Con-
siderable
work
had
been
done in concealing
the
still,
The
original door-
way
and
steps leading to
the
basement
had
been covered with boards,
about
a
foot
of
earth
topped
with grass sods above, leaving
the
trap
door
as the
only
'entrance. F.B.I. Law
Enforcement
Bulletin
132 March, 1967
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