Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I read with interest your article "The Remaking of S-l," regarding proposals to recodify the federal criminal code [April 4]. As part of that article, your correspondent emphasized the work being done in the Senate, and referred to the House Judiciary Committee as having "long been a graveyard for...
In recent years we have drafted three articles impeaching a President of the U.S., written a complete revision of the highly technical federal copyright laws and-after three years of effort -are about to do the same with the Fed eral Bankruptcy Act. We have promulgated new rules of criminal...
If they are reasonably cautious, they will probably never be detected. The undermanned INS, whose enforcement staff numbers fewer than 2,900, operates mainly on tips it receives. No government agency is under any pressure to report the "undocumented" aliens it comes across. Even if an immigrant is caught, he...
The majority opinion, written by Justice Lewis Powell, a former school board chairman in Richmond, Va., upheld lower court decisions and came down hard on the teachers' side. Powell stated that the Eighth Amendment applied only to criminal proceedings. Similar protection for children is unneeded, he wrote, because schools...
The one exception on the committee appears in the person of State Rep. Charles R. Doyle, whose conspicuous silence on Pat Horton stems from the fact that he did not attend any of the committee hearings where Horton and others took the oath. Incidentally, Doyle says he is "leaning toward...