Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, Federal Court Judge R. Dixon Herman gave the priest a Draconian two years in prison-to run concurrently with the six years he is serving for his role in draft-board raids in 1967 and 1968. Judge Herman sentenced Sister Elizabeth to a year and a day in jail...
...Knesset, Deputies argued about whether the death penalty should be invoked in Israel, where it has been applied only once, against Adolf Eichmann. As long as captured terrorists remain alive and in jail, goes the argument, they will be an incentive for other terrorists to capture hostages with an eye toward making a trade...
...fedayeen have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London; and set off damaging explosions in a Hamburg plant...
...L.A.A., by contrast, has provided 30 defenders, "mostly young idealists," who fight hard and have taken nine cases all the way to the Supreme Court. L.A.A. lawyers have done their share of plea bargaining, but only 1% of L.A.A. misdemeanor defendants during the last quarter of 1970 went to jail, as opposed to 8.3% of the public defenders' clients. Hersey also cites the fact that in 1970 the L.A.A. spent an average of $107 per criminal case, while the public defenders spent less than...
...that the U.S. Supreme Court has required free counsel for any indigent facing jail, the situation in New Haven, says Hersey, represents "a microcosm of what I believe to be a national choice of great urgency . . . Will the courts go forward in New Haven's present direction, preferring the use of public defenders who, working closely with prosecutors, stay abreast of clogged dockets by going in for more and more plea bargaining and less and less client-oriented service? Or will it be seen, eventually, that a defense of the poor fully as vigorous as that given to those...