Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tapes disclosed that the "narcs" became pushers themselves, conducting their business openly. In exchange for heroin, they received a variety of stolen goods. A 40-second color film showed a cop being handed four bottles of whisky by an informant, who was given in return an envelope filled with heroin. Another cop ordered two shipments of liquor to be sent to his home, although he was not able to receive one of them because he had to attend a meeting on corruption at the station house...
...Parolees are almost as bereft of rights as prisoners. So lower federal courts declined to intervene when Raymond Arciniega's parole was revoked. After serving nearly eight years of his ten-year sentence for selling heroin, Arciniega went to work booking acts into a Torrance, Calif., nightspot. Unfortunately for him, two other ex-convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume...
Possession of heroin, a drug which is listed in the highest classification as a dangerous narcotic, draws not more than a two-year jail sentence for any offense. First offense for the sale of heroin is punished by not more than two years, and sentences for subsequent sale offenses must not exceed 25 years...
...crime of "being present" where drugs are used has been totally abolished except in the case of heroin. Heroin "presence" penalties will be identical to those for marijuana possession...
...with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm on a trumped-up charge to force his hand. J.'s choice is excruciatingly simple: blow the whistle on the junkie, who will have him killed, or spend the rest of his sorry life in jail for trafficking in heroin...