Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the bill eventually passed, the storm of protest paid off. The Barnes Bill was significantly diluted on the Senate floor: Instead of jail sentences, instructors who refused to pledge their allegiance to the U.S. were subject only to fines...
...trial, "a jury likely would not convict" the company if it received another presidential waiver: how serious could the breach be if the White House approved yet another technology transfer? By signing the waiver, Clinton would be handing his donor's company what amounted to a get-out-of-jail-free card. Was that an argument for or against the waiver? In Clinton's world, it's hard to tell. But other memos spelled out for Clinton the political "risk" he was taking if he signed...
HUPD took Houle to the Cambridge jail where he was awaiting bail...
Bowers was tried twice by the state in the 1960s for Dahmer's murder, but by votes of 11 to 1 and 10 to 2 to convict, juries failed to reach the unanimous verdict required to send him to jail. A federal trial also ended in deadlock. Prosecutors say they suspected witness tampering by the Klan but couldn't prove it. Bowers, now 73, is a free man living in Laurel, just 30 miles up the interstate from the Dahmer family...
...family persuaded the district attorney to reopen the case in 1991. But he called it "a long shot." Over the decades, key witnesses had died and disappeared. Memories had faded. And prosecutors would have to persuade a jury to send an old man to jail for something that happened long...