Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to understand and synthesize the viewpoints of conflicting groups in the Black community enabled him to gain broad based support. He had lived in Montgomery, Alabama for only a year when the arrest of Rosa Parks spurred Montgomery's Black leaders to call for a boycott of the city's buses. Just 26, King was an unlikely choice for the presidency of the organization formed to oversee the boycott. Yet he gained the position because as one observer put it, he could appeal to "both the masses and the classes," both the downtrodden majority and the affluent elite...
...into the alleged links between the Genovese family and Schiavone. In his first probe, he had questioned the elder Masselli and Buono, who is reputed to be a Genovese captain; Silverman decided to interrogate them again, and also to grill Facchiano, now serving a 20-year prison term in Alabama, and the supposedly ailing Verlezza, a close associate of Buono...
...year the statutory safety valve was triggered in Michigan, instantly subtracting 90 days from the sentences of most prisoners. By the end of the year 1,400 will have been freed early. Crowdedness has forced Illinois prison officials to lower their standards for giving "meritorious good time" to inmates. Alabama let out 277 surplus inmates last summer on the order of a federal court. Over the past five years, meanwhile, Alabama's prison budget has quadrupled...
...Donovan's alleged conferences with mobsters in Miami that Facchiano, one of several gangsters mentioned in the allegations, escaped any questioning. Almost all the others had denied knowing the Labor Secretary, and Silverman says that summoning Facchiano then seemed pointless. But Facchiano, who is serving time in an Alabama prison for loan sharking, will now be called to testify. Silverman will also attempt to interrogate two men closely connected with Masselli who were not questioned during the first probe: Joseph Verlezza, an associate of Genovese gangsters, and Alfred Ditraglia, who watches over Masselli's interests in the Miami...
...sentenced for the same offense." Scholars, nonetheless, tend to doubt that this precludes separate state prosecutions. Says University of Virginia Law Professor Stephen Saltzburg: "Two different states, or a state and the Federal Government, can prosecute what one state cannot prosecute twice." Agrees Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller: "If Alabama wants to try to convict these people, then that is its right." There is more debate, however, about whether the Georgia confessions and guilty pleas can be used in Alabama constitutionally...