Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then half a dozen policemen had arrived and Tyree was subdued. He was arrested and taken to the Central Square station. Mitchell, who according to one account was then simply watching the arrest, was also taken to jail...
John Purvis, '64, Dunster House Committee Chairman, stated that student detective work so far has proved unsuccessful. "We are taking this very seriously. If a student is responsible he will not only have trouble staying in college; he will have trouble staying out of jail," said Purvis...
...huge chant of "Go to hell" broke out. By the end of vacation, Daytona police had arrested an average of 100 students a day. Until they realized that it would end up costing them a great deal of money, most people thought it pretty exciting to be thrown in jail overnight, and it was definitely the way to be "cool." A reserve policeman in Daytona commented toward the end of vacation that the students had been "pretty good after all, considering they were all drunk. They deserved to make a little trouble after being penned up by the rain...
Connie Hoffman, a white woman, and Dewey McLaughlin, a Spanish-speaking merchant seaman of Honduran origin, were convicted under this law in Miami Beach in 1962. Each was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $150 fine. The defendants appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and were turned down in light of what Justice Millard Caldwell called "the sound rule of stare decisis" (following precedents) and "the well-written decision" of Pace. Let the U.S. Supreme Court decide, added Caldwell caustically, "if the newfound concept of 'social justice' has outdated 'the law of the land...
Suspicion of Fraud. Under German law, prosecutors need not immediately bring charges against arrested suspects, and the Koblenz prosecutors directing the Henschel case were tightlipped. Ruhr-born Goergen was simply confined to a Kassel jail on "suspicion of fraud against the German government." But in the German business community, the word spread that the charges involved faked invoices and old parts passed off as new in a $16 million defense contract awarded to the Henschel Works to provide spare parts for U.S.-built M-47 and M48 tanks used by the West German army...