Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which they find themselves, most of the traditional barriers to porn are now down. The laws against pornography are uncertain, full of loopholes; harassed law-enforcement officials usually have neither the will, the funds nor the community backing to wage an effective war on pornography; juries will often not convict. Pornography, says Raunch King Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, is becoming "part of the mainstream of American life...
...Miller ruling, the court declared that local juries would have to decide what offended standards of taste and convict if they found that a work, "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value"?a much easier standard, so it seemed, for prosecutors...
...state court. Complains Northwestern Law Professor Fred Inbau: "The right of one federal judge to overrule five or seven state supreme court justices is just nonsensical. We have to call a halt to it." At last week's arguments before the Supreme Court, one lawyer for Convict Rice tried to counter that view; he argued that the "state courts' primary allegiance is to guarantee enforcement of the state's criminal law, while the federal courts' is to preserve constitutional guarantees." Justice Potter Stewart disagreed sharply: "That may have been true in some areas of the country...
Perhaps. Patty, 21, is on trial for her part in the S.L.A.'s April 1974 robbery of $10,600 from a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. In his effort to convict her of armed bank robbery?which carries a sentence of up to 25 years?Prosecutor James Browning, 42, plans to prove that she was there willingly. In response, Bailey will try to convince Patty's mostly middle-class jury of five men and seven women, only five with children of their own, that she took part in the holdup only because she had in effect been brainwashed...
...that atmosphere, inside Jeff City, it got so that talk about killing King seemed perfectly ordinary, something rather plausible, not at all unreasonable, certainly possible. Ray and [his fellow convict Raymond] Curtis would sit around, often high on speed, while Ray would spin out the details of how he would do the job ... Ray said he would have the place all set up, all lined up, then he would get his money, his papers. It was his idea to get plumb out of the country...