Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor Ravi Mehta called the argument a "crock," saying Razo was not poisoned by PCP when he turned himself in to police in 1987 and confessed to 12 burglaries. Mehta told the court that Razo "had earned his way to Harvard, but he also earned his way to prison...
...strange tale made banner headlines and gripping TV in 1985. Filled with remorse, Cathleen Crowell Webb publicly declared that Gary Dotson was not the rapist her testimony sent to prison in 1979. In fact, she said, there was no rape; she made up the whole story out of fear that she might be pregnant by her boyfriend. The best Dotson could obtain from that admission was a commutation of the remainder of his 25-to-50-year sentence. Last week, however, his name was finally cleared as Illinois prosecutors dropped all charges against him after a state judge ordered...
...only because it had been betrayed at home by a "stab in the back." By 1923, as the new Weimar Republic was sinking into deep economic troubles, Hitler staged an absurd "beer-hall putsch" and led a march through Munich. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison (he served nine months). "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over," he declared at his trial, "but the goddess of the eternal court of history acquits...
CAPTION: ... so do prison costs...
...focuses on patterns of criminal behavior rather than on individual crimes. It can target anyone involved in an "enterprise" that engages at least twice a decade in any of a broad range of criminal activities, from murder and extortion to mail and wire fraud. The law authorizes heavy prison sentences and carries a powerful economic punch. Convicted defendants must forfeit all their ill- gotten gains, including all "proceeds" from the enterprise...