Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staunton bring dignity and slow- dawning horror to the doomed servant Bob and his wife. And Tom Hewitt excels as the lord's other footman, as defiant as Bob is trusting. In a sardonic twist by Bond, this challenge to authority gets nowhere. Caught as a runaway thief, the self-assertive servant, like the deferential one, is hanged on an unjust...
...right on criminal matters, Justice William Brennan has shown a gift for assembling a majority behind liberal decisions. He did it again last week in a 5-to-4 ruling that fortified a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel. In the case of a convicted car thief, Perley Moulton Jr., the court ruled that Maine authorities should not have used as evidence statements he made, after his indictment, in conversation with his alleged partner, a wired government informant...
Judge Ray Lee Jenkins of Knoxville had moved against Norris when he failed to appear at a hearing to determine why Larry Simerly, a convicted car thief, was held in the Knox County Jail for 19 days after his six-year sentence had ended, mainly because of paperwork foul-ups. Norris' explanation: he had important prison matters to take up before the legislature in Nashville, and he felt his presence in Knoxville was not required. Jenkins ordered Norris to pay the car thief $1,000 in damages for his overextended sentence. In Nashville, the legislature has been hard pressed...
...story. Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd reenact the old Prince and Pauper tale under the guise of a special experiment, the kind without flashing lights. Ackroyd, born with spoon in mouth and (as ever) no expression on face, plays the arrogant Rich Kid who loses it all so [the] thief sans trust fund ends up with his loot. The rich old Social Scientists who set both of them up want to settle the old Nature versus Nurture debate, where Nature means playing the blind beggar to get spending money and Nurture seems to mean stiff suits and wood panelling...
...thief escaped with several identification cards and approximately $12 in cash belonging to Ashley L. Hogewood III '87. No one was hurt during the incident, and no gun was actually produced...