Word: trespassing
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...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...
...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...
...DISCRIMINATION. Does it violate the Federal Constitution when state or local police powers are used to enforce race discrimination in privately owned public accommodations? The court will consider five related cases of civil rights demonstrators arrested on trespass charges at a restaurant and an amusement park in Maryland, lunch counters in South Carolina and Florida. Since a ban on discrimination in public accommodations is part of President Kennedy's pending civil rights bill, the court may sidestep the broad issue, overrule the trespass convictions on narrow grounds...
...football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity. "Butts is 58 years old. We figured his life span at twelve more years and agreed on $5,000 a year...