Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DiBenedetto notified French authorities and gave them the Champagne-Mouton address on the driver's license application. French police, posing as tourists and fishermen, ran surveillance on the farmhouse in Champagne-Mouton. DiBenedetto waited. Days passed. Weeks passed. Finally, on Friday, June 13, word came: There had been an arrest. DiBenedetto could hardly believe it. He didn't trust it until two days later. "That was Father's Day. I thought about Holly's father, about her parents, and I just jumped up and cheered." DiBenedetto's daughter, born when he took the case...
...sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn's arrest...
Amaral says this apology was coerced by threatsof her arrest...
Further, it is crucial to understand the context in which the trial took place. Because of Jamal's long involvement in the struggle for African-American liberation, the racist Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had compiled an 800-page file on him by the time of his arrest. It appears the government had an interest in silencing this eloquent spokesperson for justice, like it silenced so many other freedom fighters, including former Black Panther Geronimo Ji Jaga, whose wrongful murder conviction was recently overturned after he spent 25 years in jail because it became clear that he was framed...
...think that the University actively tried to cover up the Elster arrest--far from it. Any violent crime at a safe institution like Harvard is difficult for administrators to handle, and rape is a particularly sensitive issue, for understandable reasons...