Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things with Police Chief Aldo Ballarini. A third gentleman of Verona, the magistrate, saw it all quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...
...doubling up to reduce charter fees, either: no more than one loved one may be strewn per flight. Keeping Uncle's ashes in an urn on the mantelpiece, next to the pewter sconces and Aunt Sadie's silver-framed portrait, is currently a misdemeanor under California...
...police arrived at the Torres home a few minutes later, and the sergeant was charged with firing a weapon inside the city limits-a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of $100-and released under his own recognizance after pleading not guilty. Unchastened, Torres appeared at a civic celebration at the American Legion Hall the next day. Wearing a big smile and carrying his baby, he waded through a crowd of well-wishing American Legionnaires, then waited as his attorney, Charles Weltner, made a plea for contributions...
...Stephen Haugh, 23, a Pennsylvania State University student who joined a campus antiwar demonstration on July 4, 1967. Haugh brandished an American flag emblazoned with the slogans "Make Love Not War" and "The New American Revolutionaries." He was convicted of violating a 1939 state law that makes it a misdemeanor to write "any word" on the flag or "publicly cast contempt" upon...
...court convicted the staff of the first antiwar coffee house set up to encourage dissenting soldiers Three young radicals had operated "U.F.O." (a play on both Unidentified Flying Objects and the USO), near the Army's Fort Jackson. They were found guilty of operating a public nuisance, a misdemeanor for which State Circuit Judge E. Harry Agnew sentenced each defendant to six years in prison...