Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patrolman, Peter E. DeLuca, was one of two officers who arrested Lawrence P. Largey shortly before he died in a jail cell last October. Largey's death, the subject of a recent grand jury investigation, touched off several nights of rioting in East Cambridge...
...patrolman, Peter E. DeLuca, was one of two officers who arrested Lawrence P. Largey shortly before he died in a jail cell last October. Largey's death, the subject of a recent grand jury investigation, touched off several nights of rioting...
...local high schools about the war. One morning a high school in Tewksbury, the group was met by a host of policemen. Despite the protests of the 250-member student body, Lisa and her companions were told to leave. They refused, got roughed up and were carted off to jail. The group was referred to in the papers as the "Tewksbury Trio" at a time when similar number combinations were making headlines elsewhere...
...feel strongly that legitimate protests by students for the abolition of unjust and unfair laws is a freedom that should be guaranteed by every government. To sentence students to jail terms without a fair trial for verbal insults to police officers is a mockery of the heritage of democratic principles which originated in Greece...
...bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting to recover damages for his years of imprisonment. (He once came within 24 hours of execution.) Now a federal jury has ordered New York City...