Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French law. there is no grand jury; instead, there is the juge d'instruction, whom Balzac called the most powerful man in the Republic. He performs the role of investigating magistrate. His great power is that, on his decision, and his alone, he can put any suspect in jail under "preventive detention'' while he investigates the case and prepares a dossier for the trial. Such "preventive detentions" can last for years...
...defendants now awaiting trial at the Paris Assizes this week, one has been in jail for 32 months; the average is 18 months. Even if the defendant is eventually acquitted, he has no redress, receives no compensation for his long imprisonment. Bail is almost unheard of; Frenchmen consider it an undemocratic favoring of the rich over the poor...
...from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera of the 13 alleged victims, and the jars ended so badly mixed up no one was sure which was which. But he kept Marie Besnard in jail for five years in "preventive detention.'' The 28-year-old juge d'instruction investigating young Brazilian playboy Jonsine da Silva Ramos' wife's death announced to the press: "I believe him guilty. It's up to him to prove his innocence...
...ruins of the Reichstag far to the right. Two more stops to East Berlin. It was about time to get rid of the paper: I had been warned that being seen with a West Berlin newspaper across the border could mean at least a night in jail. So I stuffed the sheets deep under the wooden bench...
...answer based on the Fifth Amendment, while Lamont holds that it has "scrapped the First Amendment--as a poor security risk." But just as when he picketed strikes 20 years ago, Lamont's concern is not for his personal safety. "I am glad to risk a year in jail in attempting to win a judicial decision properly limited the scope of Congressional committees." the Court has not yet given a ruling on contempt of Congress has not yet given a ruling on contempt of congress caused by reliance on the First Amendment. Lamont hopes his case will produce this ruling...