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...times, though, the demonstrations generated more annoyance than sympathy. On Wednesday a large group of protesters outside the convention hall confronted a line of police officers in full riot gear. In the resulting scuffle, 80 demonstrators were handcuffed, loaded into buses and taken to headquarters to be booked on misdemeanor charges. (They were all later released.) After the arrests, some of the remaining protesters staged a march down Market Street, one of San Francisco's main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that...
...jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they are producing," says Richard Wintory, director of the National Drug Prosecution Center...
...erupted in Courtroom C of Alaska Superior Court in Anchorage last week, as the jury acquitted Hazelwood on the three most serious charges stemming from the accident. After almost eight weeks and a dizzying parade of witnesses, the prosecution managed to win a conviction on only a relatively insignificant misdemeanor charge: negligent discharge of oil. Judge Karl Johnstone, miffed that Hazelwood had never apologized for his role in the spill, sentenced him to 1,000 hours of cleanup labor and $50,000 restitution to the state, but suspended a 90-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. His lawyers...
Judge Arthur Sherman '50 ordered that court records indicate that Robert F. Burns of East Boston and Lawrence R. Countryman '83 of Cambridge admitted only to misdemeanor charges of lewd and lascivious behavior...
...arrested on lewdness charges in the basement bathroom of the Science Center during January have admitted in court to misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure or lewdness. The 12 men, who were arrested in four separate incidents, were initially charged with felonies, but those charges were reduced after complaints from gay and lesbian groups...