Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Public outrage at the prevalence of violent crime, especially on city streets, has been growing. In a notable commencement address at the George Washington University National Law Center, Burger boldly argued that society's concern about a convict should not end when the cell door clangs shut. Declared Burger: "When society places a person behind walls and bars, it has a moral obligation to take some steps to try to render him or her better equipped to return to a useful life...
Allen Breed, director of the National Institute of Corrections, contends that courts have been both too lenient with violent criminals, who tend to repeat their offenses, and too harsh on all the others. Breed argues that many of these nonviolent convicts should be living in halfway houses and serving in work programs, in which they would be required to reimburse the victims from whom they stole or perform community services. Minnesota last year passed a law under which the nonviolent convict who endangers no one can be assigned by judges to these work programs. It is considered a model...
When Cable News Network featured reports last week that Atlanta police were looking for a black man because of hair samples found on seven of the victims, Commissioner Brown hastened to deny the report. Dozens of publications reported that police in East Fishkill, N.Y., had arrested a black ex-convict who allegedly had abducted a nine-year-old boy and driven off in a truck with Georgia license plates. On the CBS Evening News, Anchorman Dan Rather detailed the arrest, linked it to Atlanta and did not until the last sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers...
DIED. Oetje John Rogge, 77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General who in 1940 won convictions that helped break up the political machine of former Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and who three years later unsuccessfully sought to convict 33 pro-Nazi Americans of sedition; of cancer; in New York City. Rogge was dismissed by Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946 for making public a report that accused 24 Congressmen of collaborating with a Nazi agent...
...runs an oil and gas exploration company in Lansing, Mich., which the judge insisted was started with smuggling profits, was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined the maximum $60,000. To win his freedom, the wealthy veteran proposed an unusual deal: he would donate $1.75 million to convict-rehabilitation programs and 30 hours a week to helping mental patients during four years of probation...