Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questioner, Nick Daniloff, a formerNewsweek correspondent to the Soviet Union,asked Gorbachev for an explanation of why he wasarrested in 1986 following the arrest of a Sovietscientist in New York City...
...court-appointed lawyer, Terry Jordan, was just two years out of law school and had tried only one murder case. In Bartleby fashion, Jordan told the judge at the outset that he would "prefer not to" handle the case. It is interesting to note that according to Matney's arrest records, a Terry Jordan represented Matney in an assault and battery hearing scheduled for May 29, 1981; that is the same day that Matney gave his statement about Coleman's alleged jailhouse "confession" to the police...
...Frank Hinkle, the police deputy who had been assigned to trail Coleman right after the murder, swore two months ago in an affidavit, "I believe that the principal reason for Mr. Coleman's arrest and trial was to reassure the community that a perpetrator had been found." Hinkle was never summoned as a defense witness...
...Angeles authorities were still booking the last of some 16,900 people arrested for riot-related crimes. California Governor Pete Wilson signed a special law giving them more time. Under existing law, which specified that they had to be arraigned within 48 hours of arrest, thousands would have had to be allowed to walk free. In the city, as nationally, the air was filled with recriminations, mostly over charges that the police had been slow to mobilize to contain the riot -- in fact had pulled out after the first confrontations and, lacking a contingency plan, taken a disastrously long time...
...answer lies in the stairwell. In this center of legal enforcement for three cities the ordinance is regularly flaunted, and the stairwell is filled with smoke. "They're all low-life scum, assholes. They are definitely breaking the law, and I could arrest them," the guard says...