Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctors. But the bulk of the defense case was based on testimony from that trial genus known as the expert witness (see THE LAW). First was Yale Psychologist Roy Schafer, who had given Ruby ten psychological tests after his arrest. The results? Said Dr. Schafer: "He gave a rather weighty indication of emotional instability." Schafer's conclusion: "There' was organic brain damage and the most likely nature of it was psychomotor epilepsy...
Although the scandal of the book's title has generally been taken to refer to Honora's flight from the Internal Revenue Service (never having paid her income tax, she sails to Europe to avoid arrest), it might just as well be that of Emile and Melissa; of Moses, who takes, with suicidal singlemindedness, to drink; or of Coverley and Betsey, his lonely wife, who exposes them to ridicule among their neighbors at a certain missile site. All the Wapshots are involved in scandals of one sort or another, and Cheever seems to be saying that the fault...
...Adelina, longest of the three short films assembled in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Sophia plays a local girl who makes good by selling butts on the black market. Grimly the carabinieri come to arrest her. Proudly Sophia points to her tummy. She is pregnant, and Italian law provides that a pregnant woman may not be imprisoned-and neither may a nursing mother...
...Sentinel's pictures, spread all over Page One one morning last week, were all the evidence Milwaukee police needed to arrest John Allen Thomas, 44, a Brink's guard assigned to collect nickels from parking meters under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels...
...After arrest, the accused who is poor must often await the disposition of his case in jail because of his inability to raise bail, while the accused who can afford bail is free to return to his family and his job. Equally important, he is free during the critical period between arrest and trial to help his attorney with the investigation and preparation of his defense." After the trial, said Justice Goldberg, the fine-or-imprisonment choice often specified by law for minor offenses "may also be unfair to the defendant without means. The 'choice' of paying...