Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alfie sued Sparks for libel-in effect demanding that Sparks prove that the original conviction was correct. Sparks tried, but a London jury was unconvinced. It found in Alfie's favor-thus casting Alfie's robbery rap in doubt. "Now," he says happily, "I shall press for my conviction to be quashed...
...Angeles-tried to gain possession of a war-surplus airplane that they claimed they had bought. Although a federal court had enjoined them from owning the plane, the Finns arrested a U.S. district attorney for "violating" their constitutional rights. Result: the Finns got a one-year rap for assaulting a federal officer and were blasted by a U.S. appellate court for having "taken the law into their own hands." Now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of Dr. Harvey K. Jackson, a Texan who in 1963 was informed by two Internal Revenue agents that his property...
...Diet last week approved far stiffer laws, including a kidnap penalty of three years to life, and the country's first kidnap-conspiracy rap (one month to two years). But if kidnapers give their victim a break, they will still get a break from the law: those who surrender and do not harm their victims will have their sentences halved. With time off for good behavior, a kidnaper sentenced to life may be sprung in seven years...
...addition to bagging bums, police use vagrancy laws as catchalls with which to hold crime suspects during investigations, to keep tabs on illicit activities, to chase undesirables out of town, and to pester criminals on whom they have been unable to pin a rap. In general, the attitude is that the laws are there to use when no other law will serve. New Orleans uses vagrancy laws to jail gamblers. St. Louis police haul in prostitutes for vagrancy "just to let them know we have them under surveillance." In Philadelphia a man who insisted on making love to his wife...
...Trend. The ease with which Costello beat the rap shows the weakness of vagrancy laws. Yet precisely because the prosecution usually backs off so fast on such charges when the accused is prepared to fight, vagrancy laws are seldom tested in court, where they would almost certainly be ruled unconstitutional...