Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest stock-market scandal, remains free until his sentencing in August. The Detroit-born son of a delicatessen owner, who amassed an estimated fortune of $200 million through his dealings, and who still lives on a 200-acre New Castle, N.Y., estate, faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine...
...could face even more dismal prospects. The day before the arbitrager's plea, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Guiliani of New York's southern district urged the Senate Banking Committee to stiffen the penalties for those who buy or sell securities based on confidential company information. He also called for mandatory prison terms for brokers who lie to investigators...
...defendants who took part in a felony in which a killing occurred, even if they did not carry out the killing themselves. The new case involved Ricky Tison and his brother Raymond, who as teenagers in 1977 helped their father and his cell mate to escape from an Arizona prison. Soon after, they commandeered a car, and the two convicts killed all four family members who had been in it, including a two-year-old. After fleeing a shoot-out with police, the father died of exposure in the desert. The sons were eventually convicted of murder and sentenced...
...majority that lined up in McCleskey, ruled that "major participation" in a felony "combined with reckless indifference to human life" is sufficient to justify a death penalty. For one thing, she noted, the Tison boys knew that their father was serving a life sentence for the murder of a prison guard during an earlier escape attempt. She sent back their case for an Arizona court to consider whether such reckless indifference had been a factor...
Hard for an actor to cop an Oscar -- or earn a sheaf of rave reviews -- when an audience's first and lasting response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...