Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just so. In fact, it's highly unlikely that the Dicks, with no prior convictions, will do any jail time. But if they're found guilty, one could hope they'll pay full list price on their fines...
...string of convictions. Picked up yet again in a Dayton's department store the day after Thanksgiving--opening bell of the Christmas shopping season--he offered to snitch on the Dicks. Once, he said, he enjoyed such a close relationship with them that they bailed him out of jail. But now he professed embitterment at lowball paybacks. One policeman admitted, "I was a little surprised that he was giving up a source of his income." But when Thomas, dialing from memory, called the Dick residence with the offer of merchandise, say official reports, he was invited right over...
...another, the folks down here routinely make jokey references to the infamous dispute as if it had happened yesterday. But all family violence is not alike. And what most infuriates Marcella Kay Weekley's advocates--the band of lawyers, friends and relatives battling to get her out of jail--is when people describe what happened between Jackie and Kay Weekley as nothing more than some petty family feud...
...trailer the night of June 28, 1992. "It's like going down the freeway, and you see these cars piled up, and you're going at a certain speed, and you know you'll hit the cars," she says during an interview at the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, where she is serving a 5-to-18-year sentence for murder. "It's just something that a battered woman knows." The Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin...
Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) has four kids she hardly ever sees and dozens of convictions for snorting paint thinner. Now she is pregnant again, and an exasperated judge has told her to get an abortion or go to jail. That's enough to make Ruth a human placard for rival zanies: a band of pro-lifers called the Baby Savers (led by Reynolds) and a cell of pro-choice lesbians (Swoosie Kurtz and Kelly Preston). You can expect the competing passions to cancel one another out. And you can count on Stoops to conquer...