Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind last month's attempted assassination of Tokyo police chief Takaji Kunimatsu and the disappearance in 1989 of a lawyer who was investigating Aum, along with his wife and infant son. Asahara continues to insist he is innocent. Makoto Endo, a lawyer who has visited him in jail and who represents another arrested cult member, says Asahara is distraught because no attorney wants to take his case. When Endo refused because he didn't feel Asahara was "150% innocent," the man who claims to be a living Buddha asked, "What am I going to do without a lawyer...
...Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California to pan for gold. "Nothing I love better than being in the mountains, going months without seeing another soul...
...York Times reported that Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh admitted to two people who talked to him in jail that he was responsible for the blast, but McVeigh's lawyer disputed the report. The newspaper also reported that Michael Fortier, a friend of McVeigh's, told federal prosecutors that the two men inspected the Oklahoma City building several days before the blast...
Since Weaver's release from jail, he has not talked publicly about his case. In the local bars, admirers who have seen the videotapes and heard fiery speeches about Ruby Ridge often approach him. They want to hear about the siege and how he beat the government in court. But Weaver simply walks away. He does this partly out of suspicion but also because "I'm one of those guys who talks, but it isn't until the next day that I realize what I should have said," he explains. Weaver is clearly uncomfortable with his role as hero...
According to the police, that 1979 note, which admits to 11 crimes, among them the killing of an "old man in a trailor [sic] . with a 22 rifle," was written by Davis and passed to a guard at the St. Clair County jail on Sept. 9. Police maintain that Davis was then removed from his cell at 10 p.m. for a five-hour tour to help investigators look for evidence. At the tour's end, they say, he signed documents prepared by police in which he confessed to more than 20 separate criminal charges of murder, attempted murder and robbery...