Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he is now serving an eight-year jail sentence, Candelairo is still trying to make a killing from the caper. He has filed a lawsuit claiming that his injuries from the booby-trapped loot entitle him to $2 million in damages. Stanford Law Professor Marc Franklin says Candelairo could have a case "if he can prove that the intent of the bank was to cause him physical injury." "The punishment for bank robbery," he adds, "isn't maiming...
...three-year prison sentence and permanent revocation of the driver's license of any person caught shooting from a car. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of roadway gunmen. Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn vowed to jail all gun-toting motorists. Said Hahn: "People are going to start learning that this isn't the wild West anymore...
...plausible, original and engaging premise. Detectives Lecce and Reimers (Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez) are a pair of laughing policemen assigned to keep watch on the home of Maria McGuire (the delicious Madeleine Stowe), former girlfriend of a psychopathic criminal (Aidan Quinn) who has lately, bloodily escaped from jail. Somehow Lecce is snookered into love with the lady he is snarking on. Disguised as a telephone repairman, he insinuates himself into her pad, her bed, her heart. Dreyfuss is terrific in the role, abrupt and vulnerable; Estevez is adroit as a man comically appalled to see his partner surrendering...
...government also announced that Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera -- who kicked off the cycle of protest on June 7 when he accused Noriega of corruption, electoral fraud and murder -- had signed two depositions withdrawing his allegations. Diaz has been in jail since a Panamanian army raid on his house on July 27. Speculation was that Diaz signed the documents as the price for exile in Venezuela...
...offenders. The potential savings are considerable: as much as 70% over a comparable building, which would cost $50 million to construct. New York City's floating detention centers, says Ruby Ryles, a city corrections department official, are a "quick fix" to a prisoner glut that has swelled the local jail population to 102% of capacity...