Word: stickups
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...fair warning that the decision he was about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant's basic constitutional right to the assistance of a lawyer...
...unassuming and effective modus operandi was similar to that employed in the stickup of the Cambridge Federal Savings and Loan Association last March 8. In both cases the bandit was a short, stocky man around 50 years old. Both banks are set away from the busy Square area, and both robberies took place around 9 a.m. In the Cambridge Federal hold-up the bandit made off with...
...York, for example, a stickup artist may be charged with assault, robbery, grand larceny and possession of a weapon. If tried and convicted of robbery, he faces 20 years (40 for a second offender). But if he pleads guilty to grand larceny, he can cop out for only five to ten years. For first-degree murder, the choice is equally persuasive: jury trial and possible execution, or copping out for a mandatory life sentence that may be commuted to 40 years, and, with good behavior, be cut to about 26 years...
Gaylord Neal, 25, facing trial for a grocery stickup in Philadelphia, was out on bail there last January when a hooded holdup man collected $181 at the Topside Tavern, fired a shot in the ceiling. In March, a hooded gunman got $109 at Hagerty's Tavern; minutes later police collared Neal near by. At his feet were a bag containing $109 and a loaded pistol that police say fired the shot at the Topside Tavern...
...scene, however, one of the demolition workers got behind the wheel of the Ford, started it easily, and hid it in the partially wrecked building. When the police arrived, they found nothing but a bunch of singularly unhelpful workers. The cops sped away in search of the stickup...