Word: jails
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After an eight-month trial, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman now sits in a Manhattan jail awaiting a jury's verdict in the case accusing him of plotting a religious war against the U.S. He and nine co-defendants are charged with conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center and other New York City landmarks. In a rare interview last week, Time correspondent William Dowell talked with the blind Egyptian cleric about the trial and his anger...
Congressman Mel Reynolds, the Rhodes scholar whose political rise created a wave of optimism in Chicago's black communities, may spend the rest of the decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...
ATLANTA--Carlos Perez of the Montreal Expos posted bond and walked out of jail yesterday, several hours after a judge refused to drop rape charges against...
Perez, wearing a multicolored beret and matching vest, a black T-shirt and jeans, hugged his Lawyer before leaving jail. He said he wants to pitch this week, and Expos general manager Kevin Malone said Perez could be on the mound as early as Thursday in Montreal against Cincinnati...
HarperCollins editors say they were unaware of Ramus' financial problems when they bought the novel, but they are, needless to say, standing behind the book and its suddenly marketable author. "We worried that if he were in jail he wouldn't be able to do a book tour," says HarperCollins vice president Lawrence Ashmead. Never fear: the trial is scheduled for next month, and Ramus began his seven-city promotional blitz last week...