Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing judicial robes. One day they tried to hold a birthday party, and when the cake was banned from court, one defendant cried out: "They've arrested your cake!" At one point a defense attorney threw himself across a table and tearfully implored the judge: "Put me in jail, for God's sake, and get me out of this place." As for the judge, he addressed the defendants with irony and invective. Besides being almost unbelievably chaotic, the trial lasted five months and cost at least $2,000,000. One of the main charges against the seven antiwar...
...This report is a whitewash." So said City Councillor Saundra Graham Tuesday as she and Hard Times, an East Cambridge neighborhood organization, sharply criticized the City's report on the arrest and jail cell death of East Cambridge youth Lawrence P. Largey...
...administrative hearing scheduled for yesterday against Cambridge Patrolman Peter DeLuca in connection with the jail cell death of 17-year-old Lawrence P. Largey was postponed until December...
Largey's death at the Cambridge police headquarters jail touched off several days of riots in October and charges of police brutality. Although a medical report said that Largey died of an overdose of barbituates. Liacos's report concluded that there had been injuries to Largey's head Liacos did not say that the injuries caused Largey's death
Popkin had been sent to jail the previous week by District court Judge W. Arthur Garrity as a penalty for his continual refusal to answer certain questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the distribution of Pentagon Papers. The sentence was set to expire at the scheduled end of the grand jury's term, on January...