Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perform with out a permit, you can be put in jail," he said...
Here are just a couple of tales from the rough frontier of Texas justice: a teenager in Bexar County charged with drug crimes last September sat in jail for a month before his first scheduled meeting with a court-appointed lawyer. That attorney never showed up; and by the time the boy met the next one, he'd been behind bars more than three months. Andrew Cantu of Abilene was executed in February even though his third court-assigned appellate lawyer--the first two withdrew--didn't know how to find Cantu in prison, didn't do any investigation...
...began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...
Part of the problem stems from Hemingway's apparent uncertainty about where he wanted his story to go. Early on, some Mau Mau rebels who have escaped from jail pose a potential threat to the Hemingway encampment, but they abruptly vanish from the narrative. Another plot line involves Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and her fierce determination to shoot a particular lion before Christmas Day. "He's my lion," she says, sounding uncomfortably like a contestant in a Bad Hemingway writing contest, "and I love him and respect him and I have to kill him." She does so about halfway...
OVERTURNED. The 1997 conviction of FIFE SYMINGTON, 53, former Governor of Arizona; for bank fraud; by a federal appeals court; in San Francisco. Symington never went to jail. The judge said a juror who believed in his innocence was wrongly dismissed during deliberations...