Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to lie. I didn't want to mislead the committee. I was simply trying to find my way through a very difficult situation in which I found myself." Helms said he nonetheless agreed with the charges against him, although he understood "there is to be no jail sentence and I will be able to continue to get my pension from the U.S. Government...
Most prosecutors and judges simply cannot become overly excited about contraband cigarettes. In New York State, no smugglers have ever been fined more than $400, and hardly any go to jail even...
Shelledy earned a jail sentence. In what is being called a stunning setback for press freedom, the Supreme Court last week declined to review his contempt citation for refusing to identify the "police expert" in a pretrial deposition for a libel suit filed against him and the paper by Caldero...
...ruled in 1972 that reporters can be compelled to testify in cases involving crimes they have witnessed, but never extended that requirement to other legal proceedings. If courts in other states embrace the Idaho decision, any aggrieved citizen can force a reporter to disclose his source-or go to jail-simply by suing for libel...
Shelledy, 34, who must still face Caldero's libel suit, is scheduled to begin his 30 days in jail this week. "There are places I'd rather be," says the journalist, now Tribune executive editor. He fears that more reporters may suffer because of libel actions. Indeed, an Idaho judge two months ago denied a bid by the Twin Falls Times-News and two reporters to protect the identity of sources on a story that had provoked a $36 million libel suit...