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When the press and the public returned to the courtroom, Garrity's face was obscured by a copy of the Crimson transcript. Placing it aside, he announced his decision: Popkin was found in contempt and sentenced to a maximum of 18 months in prison, or until he agreed to answer the unanswered inquiries...
There the matter stood for two months until, on March 21, the court found Popkin in contempt and, at the same time, provided the clarification that he had earlier requested. Popkin offered in court to answer the three specific questions the grand jury had posed in the January hearing, but refused to answer further inquiries...
...Popkin, it was back to the investigative merry-go-round. He appeared before the grand jury once again on March 27, purging himself of his previous contempt by answering the three questions. At the same time, however, he refused to answer nine others. And, once again, the government moved to have him found in contempt...
Excluded from the hearing, reporters waited on the wooden benches of the bankruptcy court next door, analyzing the Crimson transcript. And as they waited, Popkin was again being found in contempt, and Massachusetts U. S. Attorney Joseph L. Tauro was walking rapidly to the courtroom from his office at the end of the hall with copies of the Crimson under...
During the week following its issuance, Kathi Allen and Stephen R. Domesick, attorneys for HSWOC, twice appealed the restraining order. The motion was denied on both occasions. A few days after the issuance of the restraining order, Cronin filed a contempt charge. He claimed that waitresses continued to picket the restaurant following the issuance of the restraining order on Tuesday, February...