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Each offense is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of one year in prison. Sentencing may be delayed until McFarlane cooperates with Walsh on further prosecutions. "I have told all that I know . . ." McFarlane said. "I will be available to repeat it." That was not good news for such major Walsh targets as John Poindexter and Oliver North...
WASHINGTON--Former Reagan aide Robert C. McFarlane pleaded guilty yesterday to misdemeanor charges that he misled Congress by assuring lawmakers the administration was not helping arm Nicaraguan rebels during a ban on U.S. military...
...Walsh said he agreed to the misdemeanor plea because of the former national security adviser's willingness to cooperate with Walsh's investigation and his "undisguised expressions of remorse after the false testimony...
...ordinance is designed to quell these fears, but it suffers from a glaring flaw: nobody is quite certain how to define aggressive begging. The law makes it a misdemeanor to beg with the "intent to intimidate another person into giving money or goods," a formulation that could give pause to a high-pressure used-car salesman. Jerry Sheehan, legislative director for the Washington State chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, predicts that the new law will be challenged in court. If citizens don't understand what a law prohibits, he argues, how can they be expected to abide...
Last November, Carter was one of 14--including activist Abbie Hoffman--arrested at an anti-CIA protest at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In April, the group was acquitted of misdemeanor charges and several counts of disorderly conduct...