Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew toward a close last week. Jack Ruby, whose conviction for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
Coughing, vomiting and experiencing chest pains, Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly...
...Clayton Powell is no ordinary clergyman - or Congressman. He spends much of his time these days cavorting in a Bahamian hideaway with a beauty queen that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education and Labor...
...establish possible grounds for a new trial." The decision, said Harlan, "may be thought by some to commit" federal courts holding habeas corpus hearings to interrogate every jury "upon the mere allegation that a prejudicial remark has reached the ears of one of its members." But any large-scale jail delivery is hardly likely. Lower courts are still free to decide each case on its merits; they are not bound to find jury prejudice and order new trials according to the generous dictates of Parker...
When Fiok refused to lose his cool during the trial's first three weeks, the cons armed themselves with homemade zip guns, broke out of the county jail during the weekend, kidnaped a policeman, and wounded a guard. Recaptured within an hour, they brazenly demanded a mistrial on the ground of "prejudicial publicity." When that failed, Mayberry scorned the trial as "comic opera," called the prosecutor "Gilbert" and the judge "Sullivan." "If I can't get my rights legally," Langnes shouted at the judge, "I'll have to blow your head off. You understand that, punk...