Word: scofflaws
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...unanimous decision, the court held that states cannot jail a man solely because he is too poor to pay a traffic fine. At issue was the case of Preston A. Tate, a Houston laborer and chronic scofflaw who had been fined $425 for nine traffic offenses. Unable to ante up, Tate was sent to a prison farm to work off his fine because, he said in a habeas corpus petition, "I am too poor...
Plenty of Congressmen thought that the heights attained by Adam were pretty dizzying, nonetheless. Missouri Republican Thomas Curtis denounced Powell for "embezzlement and forgery, not to mention such things as scofflaw actions." To objections from scattered Representatives that the censure proposal would constitute "annihilation by humiliation," South Carolina Republican Albert Watson replied: "As far as I know, he is down in Bimini with a glass in one hand and a woman in the other. Can you think a man so calloused would be humiliated...
Swatting a Gnat. So far, the main drawback is the legal requirement of a judge-signed warrant for each scofflaw. In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants. But police need no warrant to arrest anyone whom they reasonably believe to have committed a felony...
...increased crop of British correspondents is trying to depart from the cliche reporting of the past, which conjured up a fantasy land of red Indians, vast, untamed distances, beady-eyed Wall Streeters, scofflaw Chicago gunmen, political beasts and, more recently, nutburgers, healthatoriums and two-story doghouses. They also bring promise that the British reader will get a broader-based view of serious U.S. news than he has been able to get from the sometimes capable but always highly subjective accounts of the few old hands, e.g., the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke. Some of the newcomers have begun...
...Having Writ, Moves On. In Hollywood, after cops bagged scofflaw Sidney Herman for jaywalking, discovered that he had 22 other traffic citations against his name, Herman explained his dodge for evading prosecution: "I move every few weeks...