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evidence in violation of the Fifth Amendment, the right to protection from
self-incrimination and the Fourth Amendment, the protection from illegal
search and seizure. The court denied Doyle relief on both issues.^7
14.1.2.2 Public Prosecutor v. Torgersen (Norway), 1958
This case will be discussed in detail in the problem case section to follow.
14.1.2.3 Crown v. Hay (Scotland), 1967
The body of fifteen-year-old Linda Peacock was discovered on August 6,
1967, in a cemetery in Biggar, Scotland. She had been strangled and there
was a bitemark on her right breast. Gordon Hay, seventeen, had, for some
time, been detained at a nearby minimum security school for troubled boys,
the Loaningdale Approved School. Drs. Warren Harvey and Keith Simpson
made a remarkably detailed examination of many Biggar residents, including
the boys at the Loaningdale school, and made dental models on twenty-nine
of them judged to be viable suspects. From those 29 the suspect population
was reduced to five from whom additional evidence was obtained. Unusual
pits in the cusp tips of Hay’s right canine teeth were deemed consistent with
similar features seen in the bitemark. Hay was tried and found guilty. As a
minor he was sentenced to serve an undetermined term characterized as “at
Her Majesty’s pleasure”^8 (Figures 14.1 to 14.5).
Figure 14.1 Crime scene photograph from 1967 murder of linda peacock.