Word: jailed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quite unfair. I'm very sympathetic, as we all are, with the parents of young people who get caught up with this drugs thing. It must be a terrible prospect to think your son or daughter is going to spend the rest of their life in an Asian jail, or indeed any jail. But nobody can seriously say they haven't been warned...
...SENTENCED. DAVID IRVING, 67, to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust; in Vienna, Austria. The controversial British historian was arrested last November on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, in which he called the gas chambers of Auschwitz a "fairytale" and claimed that Adolf Hitler had protected Europe's Jews. Irving, who was seized by Austrian police on his way to address a far-right student fraternity in Vienna, told the court that he had since changed his views and felt sorrow "for all the innocent people who died during the Second World...
...probes against Torino soccer powerhouse Juventus and a star lineup of Italian cyclists. The 64-year-old, with a background in prosecuting health-code violations and medical crimes, takes a bare-knuckles approach to doping allegations. He said the real advantage of the law is not the threat of jail, but being able to utilize police methods that are unavailable to sports authorities. "Sports basically has one tool: the analysis of urine and/or blood. By now, whoever wants to do dope knows that there will be regular testing, and can figure out ways to evade detection," he said. Guariniello hopes...
...When a congressmen face criminal charges, they often argue in court-usually unsuccessfully-that their conduct in Congress should be adjudicated by the ethics committee (which can?t throw anyone in jail) rather than the criminal court system. The underpinning of this is a provision of the Constitution, intended to keep Congress independent, that ?granted a limited immunity to Members of Congress from prosecution when the conduct involved official legislative activities. The so-called ?speech or debate? clause immunity provides that a Member ?shall not be questioned in any other place? concerning official legislative conduct,? as a congressional report explains...
Nearly all states have a statute that allows judges to jail material witnesses to major crimes. "Somewhere in the deep core of American law is the notion that judges have a right to aggressively enforce court orders," says Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg. "Witnesses are, in that sense, like defendants. People may think that one is the good guy and the other is the bad guy, but they both need to be in court for the legal system to work." Even if the jailed witness changes testimony on the stand--and prosecutor Goldberg says she can't remember...