Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset of their mass trial, a seven-man court-martial board was told by the presiding law officer that it was a "nonviolent mutiny." Maximum pen alty: life in prison. To simplify defense procedures, the Army will judge the 25 (two escaped the stockade Christmas Eve) in small groups or individually...
...have been charged will appeal. The first step of the complicated but fairly liberal review procedure is the staff judge advocate, who can approve the sentence, reduce, or dismiss it. From there it goes to Washington. All this takes time, of course, which the accused must spend in prison, since there is no provision for bail in military law. However, despite the rigmarole of court-martial, there is little likelihood that any of the convicted "mutineers" will spend anything like 15 years in jail...
...task may be," Clarke explained, "the university has the duty to see that academic freedom is preserved and that no one is permitted to threaten or destroy its functions." If tried and convicted, the rioters-28 of whom are not even students at Sir George Williams-could receive prison sentences stretching from five years to life...
...problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without a license...
Police State? The possibility of letting violent men loose on bail to repeat their crimes is abhorrent to most citizens. But constitutional experts agree that to keep an accused person in prison because of a judge's belief that he may commit a crime while at liberty could very well violate the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Jim Martin, president of the Dallas County Criminal Bar Association, calls it "most certainly the first step toward a police state." Harold Greene, Chief Judge of the capital's Court...