Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward J. King signed the bill into Law in December, amending the chapter of Massachusetts law governing illegal drugs. Under the new provision, selling any paraphernalia "intended" for use with controlled substances will land a dealer, independent craftsman, or retail manager in jail for one or five years, depending on whether the items are sold to adults or minors...
...beast for a long time to come. He has eleven years to serve for parole violations. The manslaughter conviction will bring an additional 8½-to 25-year sentence, and if he is deemed a "persistent violent felony offender" at a hearing this month, he could go back to jail for life...
...groups like the National Rifle Association. But the town fathers of Morton Grove, Ill. (pop. 24,000), a genteel suburb northwest of Chicago, are not so timorous. Beginning next Monday, selling or possessing a handgun in Morton Grove will be a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The law against possession, passed 4 to 2 by the village trustees and upheld by a federal district court, is the most stringent gun control statute...
...poultry business in Brooklyn, had been convicted of several violations of the NRA code, including the sale of diseased poultry. "If I'd known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard as he read the verdict to a packed courtroom, to strike down the entire NRA as unconstitutional...
...arrive bearing the censor's purple stamp. Telephone callers hear a voice repeating "Rozmowa kontrolowana, "meaning their conversation is being monitored. Major intersections are blocked by military checkpoints. Summary trials continue for workers accused of organizing strikes in defiance of martial law. Some of them have already received jail terms of up to seven years, although five were acquitted after their own factory managers and foremen refuted the prosecutor's charges. Meanwhile, a systematic campaign is under way to discredit intellectuals who supported Solidarity...