Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religious freedom the trial has raised. And figures as politically diverse as Joseph Lowrey, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dr. Tim Lahaye, president of the Moral Majority of California, have joined to spearhead a group of ministers who have pledged to spend a week in jail with Reverend Moon. This unusual commitment indicates the depth of their belief that Moon's prosecution was a disguised persecution...
Robinson is prickly and proud of it: his record testifies to his suspicion of any authority but his own. He twice left chained prisoners outside a state penitentiary after officials refused to accept inmates from his overcrowded Pulaski County jail. When a black federal judge dispatched an official to oversee Robinson's facilities, the sheriff ousted the appointee and called the judge a "token...
...minister faces jail for refusing to testify
Mellish, 32, the father of three sons, refused, invoking the right to confidentiality for conversations with someone he was counseling. Such a claim has normally been honored by judges in the U.S., but Mellish was sentenced to 60 days for contempt of court and spent one night in jail earlier this month. He is now free on bond while an appeals court reviews his case...
...Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no recognized clergyman, accused of contempt of court for claiming the privilege, has lost if he fought for his rights and appealed to a higher court. In one celebrated instance, the Rev. Paul Boe, an American Lutheran Church official, avoided jail in 1974 after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an American Indian occupation of the reservation at Wounded Knee...