Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years for the Watergate breakin, will have to stand trial once again in Los Angeles. If convicted, each man could receive a five-year-to-life sentence for first degree burglary, which is burglary committed at night. Ehrlichman could also be given a one-to-14-year jail term for perjury...
...have denounced the U.S. support of Thieu's police, and Senator Alan Cranston told TIME: "AID is continuing to bolster a cruel and repressive police apparatus in South Viet Nam. A vast surveillance system is in effect, aided by U.S. communications equipment and personnel. Police torture and inhuman jail conditions, including the notorious tiger cages, await those who criticize the government's policies. That the American taxpayer should subsidize torture is an outrage...
Lawrence P. Largey's death in a Cambridge jail cell last October, the issue that first brought local prominence to Roosevelt Towers, has not yet been resolved...
...Until this year Texas was known as a dangerous place indeed to smoke. Eight hundred marijuana offenders were in jail, serving an average sentence of 9½ years for possession. Thirteen were in for life, and Lee Otis Johnson, a black activist arrested in 1968, was sentenced to 30 years for having passed a marijuana joint to an undercover agent. Last May the Texas legislature voted to make possession of two ounces or less of marijuana a misdemeanor punishable with a maximum six-month jail sentence and $1,000 fine...
California legislators voted last year to reduce marijuana possession to a misdemeanor, but Governor Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill. State law now offers a range of penalties for first-offense pot possession from probation to a ten-year jail term. The nation's harshest drug law is New York's, making life sentences mandatory for some hard-drug offenses but leaving marijuana possession punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. State police officials say that enforcement will be minimal against pot smokers. Prosecution of pushers in New York, as in all other states, will remain...