Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While she was held in jail for four days, the killers -- three men with prior arrest records -- turned up. Smith, 39, filed a suit for false arrest. Last week Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joel Rudof ruled that despite Smith's detailed account of the murder of a woman she never knew or saw, police did not have probable cause to lock her up. Smith's attorney has asked for $750,000 in damages; the jury's verdict is expected this week...
...indictments added new momentum to the 15-month-old New York corruption scandal. At least 13 officials have been indicted or have received jail terms. More than two dozen others are under investigation...
...They are brought together in a small community in upstate New York after the Sunlight Man is arrested for painting the word "LOVE" in large letters across and entrance to the New York State Thruway. With the aid of his conjuring tricks, The Sunlight Man breaks out of jail and begins to conduct a series of dialogue with Clumly, who is trying haplessly to apprehend...
Every character, great or small (and truth to tell, they're all small), has the juice of comic originality in him. In jail with Hi, one convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance...
...summer camps that bring youths to the mountains for intensive study. Others encourage students to quit school and take up jobs in factories, where they try to organize workers. While police seek to break up the groups by arresting their leaders, new ones quickly arise to replace those in jail...