Word: prison
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...excitement, you could have been forgiven for forgetting that Carlos had just been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two French secret service agents and a Lebanese fellow revolutionary. Or that the evidence the prosecution had managed to stack up against him was minimal, to say the least: Fingerprints on a whiskey bottle was about the closest they came to placing him at the crime scene...
...worry. Carlos is likely to spend the rest of his prison-bound life being convicted of other, deadlier crimes: The bombing of Berlin's French cultural center, and the 1975 kidnapping of 11 OPEC cabinet ministers in Vienna, to name just two. So, as nostalgic revolutionaries everywhere will be pleased to know, this is not the last we have seen of the Jackal's courtroom swagger...
SENTENCED. AUTUMN JACKSON, 23, misguided blackmailer who attempted to extort $40 million from the man she would like to call Dad, Bill Cosby; to 26 months in prison; in New York City...
...YORK: Vincent "Chin" Gigante will trade in his bathrobe and slippers for 12 years in prison duds, U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled Thursday. Having already decided that the "Oddfather" had been faking his mental illness, Weinstein imposed a fine of $1.2 million and brushed off pleas from Gigante's lawyer and family (not "family") that the mobster be allowed to spend "his final days" under house detention. Gigante has a host of physical maladies; the judge allowed for his early release if he becomes terminally...
Legal maneuver and political maneuver, the dank gloom of the prison into which the Africans are crammed, awaiting their fate, an astonishing evocation of the terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame...