Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail shortly before the accident. Harrison also neglected to point out that it is commonplace for New Mexico judges to hand down deferred sentences to first offenders...
...County Solicitor addressed her as Mary. "Who were you arrested by, Mary?" repeated the solicitor. Despite the judge's admonition to answer, CORE's Mary Hamilton stubbornly refused to respond to her first name. She was fined $50 and also sentenced to five days in jail...
...jail...
Pretending to be an Abolitionist, he talked slaves into running away with him, then sold them to another slaver. If the slave balked, Murrell killed him. At one point, Murrell spent a year in jail for horse stealing, where he was branded, whipped and pilloried. He came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property...
...Atkinson '65 participated in the recent demonstrations in St. Augustine, where he spent a day and a half in jail...