Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been much love lost between geeks and G-men. But after a big software-piracy crackdown in 1990 generated more bad publicity than convictions, the feds have largely held their fire. The most famous exception is Kevin Mitnick, the "dark side" hacker who became a cybermartyr after languishing in jail for four years without trial. Mitnick eventually copped a plea; he is set to be sentenced next Monday...
...James, too, was tried andconvicted of assault and battery. The judgesentenced him to nine months in jail--the firstjail sentence ever doled out by a Massachusettscourt in an assault case with no injuries, hesays...
James served his full sentence. The day beforeCommencement, the University refused to issue hima diploma; he was only reinstated and allowed tograduate by a Faculty vote that took place whilehe was in jail...
...conjunction with the White House, purported to not know of Chung's dangerous ties. However, as Judge Manuel Real, who sentenced Chung to jail, said, "If they didn't know what was going on, I think they are the dumbest politicians I've ever seen...
...Sloppy research] Cleopatra's sister did not die in jail under Caesar's rule; the sphinx did not look brand-new in Cleopatra's time; the columns in Cleopatra's palace looked Minoan (an era 1,100 years earlier...