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...refuse to pay all or part of their income taxes-1,740 Americans took that step last year-the Internal Revenue Service and the resisters have worked out a courtly minuet. Thus, such longtime resisters as Folk Singer Joan Baez file returns (not to do so is a misdemeanor) that fully report income (to report inaccurately is fraud). They then withhold all or a percentage of their estimated tax as "war tax credit." The IRS files a lien on their bank accounts and takes the money. Technically, this form of resistance constitutes willful failure to pay, punishable by a maximum...
...York City, a series of administrative reforms managed to clean up the misdemeanor cases, but as Judge Fuld's deadline neared, the felony backlog remained as high as ever. The state's alarmed district attorneys went to the legislature with a bill that would require prosecutors only to have their cases ready within six months-not to get the cases to trial in the crowded courts. The alternative, they warned, might be armies of felons being turned loose...
Those arrested in yesterday's action were booked on charges ranging from criminal trespass and breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor to assault and battery on a police officer. Late Friday night administration officials had said that protesters remaining in the Union past midnight would merely be cited for contempt of court...
...dealing in term papers, Lefkowitz's office charged, the firm has subverted the educational process. Shortly thereafter, State Assemblyman Leonard Stavisky, who teaches American history and government at the City University of New York, announced that he is introducing legislation to make the sale of term papers a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Now Lefkowitz's office has subpoenaed the corporate records of another New York firm, Minuteman Research, Inc., which the state claims received 23 term papers stolen from Harvard professors...
...Outrageous!" snapped District Attorney David Minier, who is appealing the case to a higher court. The criminal case grew out of violations of Section 5650 of the Fish and Game code, which makes pollution of coastal waters a criminal misdemeanor. Under it, the oil companies were each charged with 343 counts, making a total possible fine of $812,000. Barker, however, accepted a guilty plea from the companies on only one count each...