Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to determine whether the majority of Nicaraguans consider it legitimate (polling in Nicaragua is prohibited), we can only judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides Sanchez, and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, are surely much more legitimate representatives of the Nicaraguan people than Ortega and the Sandinistas...
...large wild cat, then ate the meat and kept the hide. He would have been better off if his aim had been bad. State and federal authorities said the cat was a Florida panther, protected under endangered- species laws. Since then Billie has been fighting to stay out of jail, claiming he was unaware he had shot a rare animal...
Both Pica and Pierson pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Pica was sentenced in April to eight to 24 years in prison. But Pierson argued that years of sexual abuse had pushed her over the brink. Last week, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail and five years' probation. "This is not a place I want to be in, but nothing could compare to what I went through," she said last week at , the Suffolk County Correctional Facility. "I just couldn't see any other...
...girlfriend crept into the hospital disguised as a nurse and injected the wounded victim with battery acid. That attempt also failed. Junatanov lined up another contract killer to finish the job -- but this time the hired assassin was an undercover Los Angeles police officer. Junatanov, 20, landed in jail. Last year a jury in Los Angeles acquitted him of all charges after hearing lurid testimony of years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by his father. "The jurors came up and hugged him," says Defense Attorney Joel Isaacson...
...records his struggles with concupiscence ("Her temptation was awaiting my default and ate at my ethics like an itch"), though he does admit that one night he declined an invitation to visit the hotel room of an amorous Little Richard. Chapters are devoted to each of Berry's three jail terms (for armed robbery as a teenager, for a Mann Act violation in the '60s and for tax evasion in the '70s). Every 16 years or so, he would emerge from prison and savor freedom without letting it cramp his style. "My next fall is due around year...