Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share of the funky-flaky. The opener, '(You Can Have My Girl but) Don1t Touch My Hat,' finds the Texan in a possessive frenzy about his "John B. Stetson." 'Promises,' meanwhile, is naked Lyle, skin flayed, soul raw with grief that could be whispered from a jail cell or an unquiet grave. The melody is plain, the guitar accompaniment plaintive: the song enshrouds you in its desperate beauty. "The primal emotions on 'The Road to Ensenada' -->
INDICTED. JOE WALDHOLTZ, 33, estranged husband of Utah Representative Enid Greene; on 27 counts of bank fraud; in Washington. He was also freed from a Pittsburgh jail after accounting for money entrusted to him for investment by his grandmother. He had spent most of it on himself...
...jail, Gang said he was introduced to prison life by being badly beaten by guards...
RELEASED. F. LEE BAILEY, 62, lawyer; from 44 days in jail for contempt of court; after agreeing to hand over 400,000 shares of stock belonging to an ex-client; in Tallahassee, Florida. Bailey had considered the stock payment for his services...
This disturbing phenomenon may not be endemic to the U.S. Two weeks ago in Toronto, Canada, the police stopped and arrested Rubin Carter for crack dealing. But they definitely had the wrong man--not only was Carter completely innocent, but he had previously been in jail for 19 years on a false murder charge. He is the current executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted. The Toronto police, who are accused of stopping blacks more frequently than whites, attempted to excuse their arrest as "mistaken identity" and offered to pay for damaging Carter's Mercedes...