Word: felons
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...What does it mean," thinks a Boston policeman stopping a Black teenager speeding in a Saab turbo, "when Blacks can routinely live as good or better lives than I?" The policeman rebels against the thought, deciding that a kid having fun in a graduation present must be a felon, and so instead of receiving a moving violation, someone's child is dragged down to the station though he has registration in hand...
...America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia. Before Jackie, Walter or the others could comment, Tamer declined the honor...
...week the committee opened for testimony. Impatience is already running high. A nine-member House team of "managers," or prosecutors, in the case, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, asked that the Senate find Claiborne guilty on the spot, using just the evidence that he is a convicted felon. Committee Chairman Charles Mathias of Maryland rejected that proposal...
...Wexford and stern, judgmental, middle-aged John Burden. Live Flesh rests instead on a daring premise: a released convict's obsessive determination to make a friend of the policeman whom he shot and paralyzed while resisting capture. The policeman and the reader are alternately encouraged to believe in this felon's capacity for rehabilitation and disillusioned by his consuming selfishness. Complicating the uneasy relationship is the criminal's growing attraction toward the woman whom the policeman means to marry and cannot sexually satisfy...
...said Rehnquist was the victim of "harassment and hearsay that would never be admitted in any court in the world and would never be used against the most wretched felon...