Word: contempts
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...speech in Faneuil Hall, Wald charged that the American judicial process is being "subverted" -especially through the courts' misuse of procedures relating to bail, sentencing and contempt of court-and warned that the "American traditions we've grown up under are going down the drain...
...five defendants, Teri Volpin, has already served seven weeks of an eight-week contempt sentence. Others in the group have served from two to four weeks. Volpin will probably be called to testify again when her present sentence ends...
Five young people who refused to answer broad-ranging questions about their activities in the anti-war movement are returning to jail-possibly for the rest of the year-following a Federal court's refusal to overturn contempt of court charges against them...
...five were cited for contempt late last year when they refused to answer questions put to them at Federal grand jury hearings in Tucson, Arizona. The grand jury was convened ostensibly for the purpose of investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase dynamite in Tucson and transport it to California...
When they still would not testify, they were cited for contempt...