Word: trespasser
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Although Powers believes that the students did not trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...
...civilian population, fitting the Nuremberg definition of crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg statement that "Crimes against international law are committed by men, not abstract entities" would therefore open legions of scientists, bureaucrats and others to prosecution. The more practical converse of his view is that citizens who withhold taxes, trespass on reactor sites or otherwise resist nuclear power are entitled to present juries with the reasons for their civil disobedience--a line of defense judges disallow...
...threatened to burn it down, Moran sentenced them to five days in the county jail. Some whites denounced him for being a "bit soft on our Indian brethren," But in Moran's view, "shorn of emotionalism, what happened is nothing more than a slightly aggravated case of trespass...
...after-effects of the strike lingered. Judge Edward O. Viola '50 refused to let Harvard drop charges; 170 students were convicted of criminal trespass, and fined $20 each. The Committee of 15, a group set up to determine academic punishment for the demonstrators, required 13 students to with-draw, and recommended to the Faculty that it "dismiss" three others. In addition, 20 students received "suspended suspensions," and 99 others were placed on warning. The Committee of 15 gave way to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, another disciplinary panel that has been the focus of an almost continuous student boycott...
...vision which allowed her to work on her writing even when she was not putting pen to paper. In a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. Tillie explains the state of mind that remains when a writer is silenced by circumstance. "She (Davis) must have had to use 'trespass vision'; eavesdrop, ponder everything, dwell within it with all the resources of intellect and imagination...each opportunity for knowing seized... And in the process the noting of reality was transformed into comprehension, Vision...