Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testimony publicly before the committee, then plead that the widespread publicity would make it impossible to find an unbiased jury for any trial on criminal charges. Others too might try this tactic, or seek immunity from the grand jury, creating something of a marketplace for officials trying to avoid jail...
...left newspaper, La Cause du Peuple, quoted Bruay miners, who demanded: "Give [Leroy] to us and we'll cut him into pieces with a razor. His balls should be cut off." Leroy's lawyers eventually took the case to a higher court, which ordered his release from jail because of insufficient evidence. In an unprecedented action, Pascal was also removed from the case by the French Supreme Court of Appeal for bias, and a new judge was appointed...
Those lawyers whose chosen lawyers fail to keep them out of prison may, in the end, follow the example of G. Gordon Liddy, the man who was convicted as the supposed ringleader of the breakin. Presently ensconced in the D.C. jail, where he is known to the other inmates affectionately as "Watergate" Liddy, the former FBI agent and New York state prosecutor has become a much-in-demand jailhouse lawyer. Regulations prohibit him from actually writing writs and petitions for others, but he can and does offer legal advice as a critic and counselor. He will be able to continue...
LIKE MOST Americans who were drafted in 1968, O'Brien did not emigrate to Canada or submit to a jail term. And even when he knew he was headed for Vietnam as a grunt, he did not desert. He formulated precise plans for an escape to Sweden, but as he started to leave, he found that the futility of a lonely protest and the vagueness of the future as an exile clouded any clear moral course It would hurt his parents more, he decided, to receive a letter from him explaining his desertion than a telegram announcing his death...
Those preliminary results parallel the experience of Ohio, the first state to try the shock-probation process. There, 4,014 prisoners have been released after serving only two or three months since the plan went into effect in 1966. Only 9% of them have had to go back to jail while the national recidivism rate is estimated as from...