Word: misbehaviors
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...matter what form rehabilitation takes-vocational or academic training, individual or group counseling, long or short sentences, probation or parole-it does not work. We must finally concede that it is naive to suppose we can take a convict who has devoted a good part of his life to misbehavior of every sort and transform his character...
...when the subject is of compelling public interest. The subject was certainly that in this instance, and it was sure to make the reporters' ears grow long. The police session was called to discuss the electronic bugging of squad cars by police higher-ups to detect possible police misbehavior...
...from office - a more expeditious way that does not, for example, have to depend on tapes. Obviously, they will not be made any more. We need a system that would operate when only one or two or three charges have been made against the President. The sheer range of misbehavior, the totality of it, simply overwhelmed everybody this time. What if there had been only one clear-cut impeachable offense? Perhaps what we need is a permanent independent prosecutor, related in some way to or appointed by Congress...
...purely of a political nature. It is not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the state against gross official misdemeanors." Charles Evans Hughes, writing in 1928, agreed that "according to the weight of opinion, impeachable offenses include, not merely acts that are indictable, but serious misbehavior." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in a cogent committee study issued last month, is the latest to conclude that "acts that undermine the integrity of government are appropriate grounds whether or not they happen to constitute offenses under the general criminal...
Punishable contempt, said Gignoux, exists when intentional "misbehavior, in the presence of a judge, is substantial enough to cause material obstruction of the trial." Lawyer William Kunstler was cited twice-for a harangue labeling the proceedings a "legal lynching" after Ralph Abernathy had been barred as a witness and later, when Abernathy came into court, for interrupting the trial and embracing him. Dellinger was convicted on seven counts, including vilifying Judge Hoffman as a "fascist," "liar" and "the chief prosecutor." Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman got two citations each for stunts like dressing in judicial robes decorated with Stars...