Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Judge Tyler again tried to reason with Miller. Miller was sympathetic. "I would not like to put it on your conscience that you would be sending an innocent man to jail," he told the judge. Somewhere behind him in the paneled courtroom Miller's infant daughter began to cry. Tossing back her long blonde hair, Miller's young wife briskly began breast feeding the child. Patiently, Judge Tyler reminded Miller that "no one had trammeled on your right to speak your views." Again, he offered Miller the chance to get another card. Again, Miller refused...
...stint at the Kennedy Institute. Some stressed the incompatibility of labor's long-run interests with those of the Negro, especially on the local level. Others stressed the exigencies of Vietnam and the need to ally with peace groups. (Rustin, whose career as a pacifist stems back to a jail sentence in 1943 for conscientious objection, chuckled noticeably.) Rustin's response was twofold: he agreed with those who stressed the contributions of the peace movement and the qualifications upon his proposed alliance; but he also expressed concern about the possibility of a more attractive alternative. "Present me with an alternative...
...month prison sentence on several grounds, including lack of "respect due institutions and persons when criticizing political and administrative action." In particularly serious cases the sentence can go up to six years. Yet Spanish courts, displaying staunch independence, have not sent any writer to jail...
Getty then went over all the possible verdicts Speck might receive, asking whether the venireman would be willing to sign "not guilty" if he was in doubt and whether he would accept a jail sentence instead of death if Speck was found guilty. The venireman insisted that he could sign "not guilty," and that he could agree to a jail sentence. Getty asked the question again; suddenly the man did a turnabout, blurting out that the only verdict he could accept was the death penalty. Excused, for cause...
...matter how stark a film is, it is far less forceful than the impact of the face-to-face confrontations that are the key to Encounter's success. "I just tell them that almost every friend I had when I was on drugs is either dead or in jail," says another Encounter founder, Jan Stacy...