Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IN THE MID SIXTIES, a man in Southern California was arrested for growing corn over seven feet high. Simultaneously, the Johnson administration examined the embarrassingly obsolete and arbitrary body of law known as the United States criminal code. Now 13 years old, the criminal code reform effort has produced not...
Three of the jailed demonstrators said in a statement they are "eager to face the courts" and added they were jailed for "political convictions and not criminal activities."
New Hampshire State Police officers arrested 42 members of the Boston Clamshell Alliance Saturday on charges of criminal trespassing as they entered the construction site of the nuclear power plant at Seabrook, N.H.
Illicit and anonymous, afraid of the law, prostitutes are constantly driven into the underworld both as criminals and victims. Some civil libertarians believe that simply eliminating criminal sanctions against them would break the connection between prostitutes and crime. The view seems unrealistic, if only because street prostitutes, legal or illegal...
However unpopular her vote in the rape case, Bird maintained that she was doing no more than deferring to the meaning given great bodily injury by popularly elected lawmakers. "Personal repugnance toward these crimes cannot be a legitimate basis for rewriting the statute as it was adopted by the legislature...