Word: jails
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...according to the government. One military ruler alone stole some $6 billion. Obasanjo set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (efcc), which says it has recovered $5 billion of stolen assets, going after ministers and governors, and even prosecuting the chief of police, who served six months in jail...
...narrow one, that there is a Constitutional right under the 14th Amendment's due process clause that says private consensual activity between adults cannot be criminal," said J. Dean Carro, the lead lawyer for Paul D. Lowe, the former sheriff's deputy sentenced in 2004 to 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to incest...
...exchange for a one-year gag order prohibiting Hicks from speaking to the press, he will be sent home by the end of May to serve the balance of a nine-month jail term - with seven years suspended - handed down at Guantanamo. The deal also prohibits Hicks from later accusing the U.S. of mistreating him, or suing for damages. The deal was struck without consulting the military prosecutors in the Hicks case, who had favored a much longer sentence, provoking charges in Australia and the U.S. of a political...
...refuses to testify or "to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House ... or any committee of either House of Congress" shall be guilty of a misdemeanor "punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months...
Well, maybe. The strength of the government's case against him and his co-defendants aside, "beyond a reasonable doubt," the level of proof required to convict a criminal suspect, may not be as high a barrier between Black and jail as he thinks...