Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obstacles, gun lovers and gun haters are beginning to find a common cause in support of harsher sentences for persons committing a crime with a gun. Both the criminal and the gun would then be removed from society for a long time. Last week in California, Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law requiring a mandatory sentence, generally in the range of five years, for anyone using a gun to commit a felony. Said Brown: "By signing this bill, I want to send a clear message to every person in this state that using a gun in the commission...
...hunting Kathleen, who was accompanied in flight by Josephine, for questioning about Patty. Asks a bewildered police official: "How do you know when someone like them has gone over the edge from being merely a radical dissident to being an urban guerrilla willing to commit illegal acts? When do they require watching...
...Wednesday night, the Harrises were flown to Los Angeles to be indicted on 18 state felony counts, ranging from kidnaping to assault to commit murder. A sulky sun was beginning to rise over the smogbound city when husband and wife arrived at court in separate, four-vehicle caravans. Their hands on their guns, plainclothesmen backed up an escort of heavily armed policemen. As Harris listened to the charges being read out against him, flickers of contemptuous amusement moved across his face...
...informer does testify, courts tend not to be bothered if he is guilty of seamy behavior. In 1973 the Supreme Court swallowed substantial involvement by a federal agent in the manufacture of methamphetamine pep pills (speed) because the other plotter had demonstrated that he was already disposed to commit the crime. Actual entrapment, however, is banned. The only other major prohibition is against using an informer to infiltrate a legal defense. That would, of course, violate the defendant's constitutional right to a lawyer. But the Constitution does not otherwise trouble informers much...
...more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention to themselves," he says. "News coverage does not mobilize a person's fantasies. The press merely reports reality." Adds NBC'S Wald: "There is no indication that Mrs. Moore was influenced by the coverage of Squeaky Fromme. Political cabalists commit assassinations for their reasons, and kooks have their reasons. The press has a responsibility to report both." Asks Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey: "Are we in the business of behavior modification or reporting the news...