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...Charter Arms revolver and eleven cartridges. The policemen found two boxes of ammunition in her car. They read the standard recitation of rights to her, then took her to the Mission police station. The gun was confiscated, and she was cited for possession of a concealed weapon?a misdemeanor under California law. A police lieutenant called the Secret Service to ask if the federal agents wanted her detained. "They said it won't be necessary, that they'd go talk to her," a senior San Francisco police officer reported. So Moore was released at 4 p.m. ?about the time...
...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
Last week the man who altered the transcripts was brought to justice-in a manner of speaking. Joe Woolley, former coach at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas, where Jackson and Phillips were students, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. He had upped their class ranking, said Woolley, simply to make them eligible for athletic scholarships under N.C.A.A. rules. The possible maximum sentence was $1,000 and a year in jail. Woolley was fined all of $25. District Attorney Ron Wilson, who recommended the wrist-slap approach, explained, "I can't think of a more laudable reason...
...court proceedings. Yet most defendants still did not benefit because 90% of them were tried for non-felony offenses in lower state and local courts-the so-called sausage factories of the criminal-justice system. Not until a 1972 decision involving a Floridian convicted without a lawyer of a misdemeanor did the court finally rule that "no person may be imprisoned for any offense . . . unless he was represented by counsel at his trial." Legal experts viewed Argersinger v. Hamlin as a landmark commanding wholesale change in criminal-justice procedures...
...Special Prosecutor's still open agenda is the case of Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and chief campaign fund raiser. He has been plea bargaining with the prosecutors, seeking to plead guilty to one or more misdemeanor charges of violating campaign-contribution laws. The prosecutors want him to plead guilty to a felony. If no agreement is reached, an indictment is expected. Also facing probable indictment is Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's millionaire Miami friend. Although it is entering its final phase, the Watergate scandal is far from over...