Word: assaulted
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...enough. "To speak of crime," he said, quoting the Crime Commission, "only in terms of the work of the police, the courts and the correctional apparatus alone is to refuse to face the fact that widespread crime implies a widespread failure by society as a whole." A much broader assault must be directed at the underground causes, and L.B.J...
...only was she unaware that her pursuers were cops, she said, but they beat her up on the street-a story coldly denied by the police on the stand, warmly supported by her cousin in the press. Whatever the facts in the matter, Raven was charged with third-degree assault, violation of New York's stiff Sullivan weapons law, and unlawful possession of the tear-gas pen. Possible sentence: up to six years...
Many lawyers would argue that Raven herself had a good assault case against Callinan, whether or not he touched her. But by a vote of 2 to 1, a three-judge city criminal court without a jury convicted her on all charges. Last week she received a suspended sentence, on grounds of her "generally favorable" probation report and the assumption that she "acted in panic." But the prosecution had unquestionably made its point. "A lot of people didn't know tear-gas guns are illegal," explained Prosecutor Jeffrey Atlas. "Well, they know now." Unfortunately for Raven Novie, the lesson...
Shepley shipped out as a war correspondent early in World War II, a member of what was to become a distinguished team of Time Inc. war reporters. He covered Stilwell's assault on the Japanese in Burma, accompanied "Merrill's Marauders," a name he coined, reported Allied campaigns in the Southwest Pacific, and saw action in Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge...
...onto a prickly shoal in Washington, D.C., where federal courts handle all kinds of violent big-city crimes. As a result, a grand jury has just returned the first bail-jumping indictment under the new no-bail setup. On the second day of his trial for robbery and assault, John L. Barringer, 23, saw things going against him. He then simply vanished. He was arrested two months later for another robbery, two more counts of assault, and packing a pistol. Having violated his trust the first time, he is now being held without bail, and he could eventually be sent...