Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shows, and I follow the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. If it means that I was involved in the bombing, then that means about a billion other Americans were involved as well. I don't think it is right to take someone's beliefs and convict them because of those beliefs...
...Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas...
Shakur seems to have decided that if people were going to criticize him for things he wasn't doing, if the justice system was going to convict him of a crime he claims he didn't commit, well, then, he was going to become the most dysfunctionally fearsome gangsta in America just to spite them all. In Wonda Why They Call U Bytch he offers up a dishearteningly crass justification for calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come...
...Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her civil rights division to review the case under laws against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those who were jailed. But no court can effect the rebuilding of shattered lives and families...
...prison. Parents with a sense of humor took photos of their children behind bars in a replica of an Angola prison cell. Business was also brisk at the "Lifers' Sno-Cones" refreshment booth, manned by a murderer and an aggravated rapist. In a nice Jailhouse Rock touch, an all-convict band named Pros and Cons provided the music...