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...protesters be given a warning before they are removed from an event, and instead immediately and forcefully ejected the protestors. Once outside, the four were arrested and charged with disturbing a public assembly, a charge which carries a potential penalty of a fine and up to a month in prison...
...from the victim's husband as well as that from another man who was not Wyniemko. "The first thing I want to do right now is go to church and say some prayers of thanks," Wyniemko said after his conviction was overturned in 2003. He served 8.5 years in prison...
...mask from the first murder matched Love's - and not Matthews' or Hayes'. Matthews was exonerated in June 2004, but it took lawyers at the Innocence Project more than two years to bring Hayes back to court. In December 2006, after Hayes served eight years in prison, he was released. "I always knew it would happen, so it wasn't a surprise to me," Matthews said at the time. "Never give up hope, no matter how bad it gets...
...rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Siegelman has long claimed that his prosecution was driven by politically motivated, Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys...
...four other local landowners, hauled before a judge 200 miles away in Dublin who, at Shell's insistence, imprisoned the men for contempt of court for violating the injunction against interfering with work on the pipeline. After the men, who remained defiant in court, had spent 94 days in prison, Shell backed down and withdrew the injunction. By then, of course, the Rossport Five, as they became known, had rallied nationwide support for their "Shell to Sea" campaign, aimed at forcing the company to adopt the more expensive alternative of processing the gas at sea. Violent clashes with the police...