Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year. Says Maddox...
...elderly blacks. "The best we were hoping for was a hung jury if the two blacks could hold out," Chavis recalls. After a five-week trial, in which several young blacks testified that the ten defendants had staged the bombing, the jury took only three hours to convict them. Chavis was handed a 29-to-34-year sentence...
...Giving convicted racketeers longer prison sentences. The GAO study found that over a four-year period, 52% of the sentences imposed on organized criminals by federal courts involved fines but no imprisonment and only 20% were for jail terms of two years or more. One reason: many judges feel that the mobsters' crimes, except the killings of each other, are nonviolent and thus less serious than, say, mugging. When jailed, mobsters are generally model prisoners and, with their high-priced legal help, win paroles more easily than the average convict...
...most cases, however, Justice Blackmun's warning seems to be justified. Defendants often convict themselves, and in a variety of ways...
...letters by CIA agents from 1953 to 1973. The outcome of the Kearney case, and others likely to follow, is difficult to predict. When-and indeed if-the case actually comes to trial, notes Washington Attorney Edward P. Morgan, it will still be doubtful "whether an American jury will convict an FBI man for trying to combat terrorism...