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- <text id=91TT1135>
- <title>
- May 27, 1991: American Notes:Supreme Court
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 27, 1991 Orlando
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- SUPREME COURT
- 48 Hours On Ice
- </hdr><body>
- <p> A person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a
- "prompt" ruling by a judge to determine whether the arrest was
- lawful. But what does "prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme
- Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be
- jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line
- with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a
- surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing
- that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia
- fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may
- be compelled to await the grace of a Dickensian bureaucratic
- machine as it churns its cycle for up to two days."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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