Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this scandal, Stanley H. Fuld, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, announced last April that all New York State defendants except homicide suspects must be tried within six months of their arrest; otherwise, said the judge, they may not be prosecuted at all. Moreover, any prisoners who do not get bail must be tried within 90 days or granted bail. In view of all the complications, a full year was allowed before the speedy-trial rule was to take effect...
...Thanh: This is the rule of Law?! Free arrest of citizens who want Peace, Democracy. Independence. We don't want Americans to come here. We don't want anyone to come here and interfere in our affairs and put on our heads such a puppet as Nguyen Van Thieu, which is a shame...
These are only two of the 460 poachers whom the Government has identified in a new crackdown. Forty-eight arrest warrants have been issued within the past two months, and the penalties are severe. Two Atlanta men, indicted three weeks ago for trading in alligator hides, face sentences of up to 40 years in prison and $400,000 in fines...
...Talney of the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff's department. But policewomen might avoid such assaults simply because "it is cowardly to attack a woman, even though she is a police officer." Actual incidents seem to support Talney's view: a child-beating suspect who had twice resisted arrest surrendered peacefully when Private Mary Ellen Abrecht and two Washington patrolmen came to his door...
Winston said that members of PALC had left Harvard's Massachusetts Hall not because they were afraid of arrest, but because their protests would have been silenced if they were arrested...