Word: trespassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court, in a busy, term-ending week, had just invalidated the trespass convictions of 42 civil rights sit-in demonstrators in three Southern states. And the long-awaited civil rights bill would surely be signed into law by President Johnson on or about July...
...United States Government has taken said defendant away," roared Judge Pye. "The court is physically unable to proceed with the trial." The court also was unable to try 58 other civil rights defendants who flew the coop by federal court orders. Last week, Pye scheduled trials for 42 more trespass defendants, but with little expectation that they would remain in his jurisdiction...
Last summer Pye launched a one-man crusade against sit-ins. Thundering that Georgia's antitrespass law had been "flouted, defied and violated," he ordered indictments prepared in 101 civil rights trespass cases, some dating back to 1961. Pye set bail as high as $20,000; where defendants had already been released on bonds of $300 or $500, he upped the ante to $3,000 or more, explaining that he "acted on my own motion." Then he began meting out ferocious sentences. His most famed was six months in jail and a year at hard labor for Connecticut College...
...CRIMINAL TRESPASS: Unlawful entry without provable intent to commit any other crime. The revision would, for example, make possible the conviction of a suspect caught prowling in a house with no stolen property in his possession...
...MIGs knew from listening in that the unarmed plane was having radio trouble. In fact, the T-39 probably had a complete electrical breakdown that knocked out its navigational equipment as well as the radios. This, and a 45-knot wind from the west, would account for the trespass. But that did not explain why the Russian fighters disregarded time-honored rules for handling airspace violations. Countless such violations occur in the crowded, nervous skies over the border between West and East Germany. Normally the trespasser-U.S. or Russian-is forced to land, answers a day's worth...