Word: arresting
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Harris County-Court-at-Law Judge James Barkley ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty of hindering an arrest, a Class A misdemeanor, defense attorney George Tyson said...
Tyson said he and lead defense attorney Mike Ramsey had asked for the instructed verdict Wednesday night on the grounds that prosecutors had failed to prove that Clemens hindered the arrest Jan. 19 of his brother, Gary Clemens, at the Bayou Mama's Swamp...
...afternoon of Dec. 7 began to detain suspected "subversives." They swooped down on a Los Angeles baseball field, for example, to apprehend members of a team called the L.A. Nippons. Within two months, 2,192 "suspects" had been jailed. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect citizens against arbitrary arrest, but a U.S. law of 1924 had virtually forbidden Japanese immigration, so most of the arrested suspects were classified as "enemy aliens...
...hysterical classic of this genre may be False Arrest, a two-part ABC drama this week. Donna Mills, TV's most heart-wrenching sufferer, plays a businessman's wife who is falsely accused of ordering the murder of her husband's partner. It's all downhill from there. In jail she is brutally raped. Out on bail, she gets vicious phone calls ("Murderer! You're gonna burn in hell!"). At her trial, she is framed by lying lowlifes. Once in prison, she learns that her husband has emptied her bank account and disappeared. Her kids stop coming to visit. Even...
...month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest...