Word: trespass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climbed into the palace. After wandering the corridors, he entered Queen Elizabeth's bedroom and woke the sleeping monarch. Police did not charge Fagan with a crime for that intrusion, since he had not threatened any harm to the Queen or stolen any possessions. Under British law, trespass without causing actual damage or harming anyone is a civil matter and does not carry the risk of a jail sentence. Fagan was on trial for a burglary only in connection with his earlier, undetected breakin, which he confessed to police after his arrest. Yet to make the Burglary charge stick...
However correct in law, Fagan's acquittal prompted public expressions of outrage and raised the possibility of legal reform. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said a change in the law of trespass may be considered to make it possible to charge trespassers with criminal penalties. Said the tabloid Sun: "Next time you are walking along the Mall and feel thirsty, why not pop into Buckingham palace for a glass...
...Trespass is not illegal under English law; criminal intent must be proved. Since Fagan did not threaten to harm the Queen, he was charged with stealing half a bottle of wine worth $5.40 during an earlier visit to the palace on June...
BUFFALO. N Y--Nearly 90 Buffalo State University students are facing criminal trespass charges after they refused Last week to vacate a student union building that the administration plans to turn into a dental school facility...
...property of the Lab. Two of these protestors served two weeks in prison as a consequence of a liturgy held in the Lab's courtyard to mourn the thirty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In court, the protestors' defense was of a higher law than trespass, their appeal to a higher authority than the judge's. The same group--Ailanthus, named for a plant that grows even in extreme conditions--has vigiled at the Lab every Monday morning for almost two years...