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DESCRIPTION: Average sentences for blacks and for whites convicted of murder, rape, kidnaping, robbery, arson, drug trafficking and drug possession, as well as for all crimes; color illustration of black person and white person on scales...
...section of New York City, was shattered when a fire erupted in a two-story house that the city had rented to use as a foster home. Today five respected citizens who live on the block each face up to 25 years in prison if they are convicted of arson. "These are nice middle-class people, not hoodlums," says Defense Lawyer Jacob Evseroff...
...Yale University alumnus was charged with third-degree arson and released on $50,000 bail Monday after allegedly setting fire last weekend to a wooden shanty built by Yale undergraduates to protest Yale's investment in companies doing business in South Africa...
Daniels said his client has not yet entered aplea but that even if Bracey did set the blaze, hemight not be guilty of arson because that crimeapplies only to buildings which are occupied bypeople. Although it is unclear whether thestructure can legally be considered a residence,no one is currently known to be living within thestructure...
...admitted torching. He claimed that his wife had choked to death accidentally during an episode of sexual bondage. Though he faced the death penalty for murder, he drew only a seven-year prison term on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Frustrated prosecutors have now moved to try him for arson...