Word: trespassings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Braunstein and Davis, we think they could be nailed under Massachusetts General Law 266, section 120: "Entry Upon Private Property after being Forbidden as Trespass." The penalty, if convicted: a maximum $100 fine, or imprisonment for 30 days, or both...
...Anyone failing to observe this warning will be subject to prosecution for criminal trespass," Ford warned...
...immediate curse upon Bishop Knox, principal of Wingfield High School in Jackson, Mississippi. Last month Knox allowed the prayer to be read over the school's public address system after students had voted 490 to 96 for it. But for Jackson school officials that was an unforgivable trespass by religion into secular territory. Knox was fired...
...related assaults to be punished more severely than the same crimes are treated when bigotry is not a motive. State Senator Lynn Adelman, who is representing Mitchell, complains that such legislation criminalizes thoughts. "What if there was a law aimed at abortion-clinic protesters that said anyone who commits trespass and is also against abortion rights commits a more serious crime and faces enhanced penalties...
...Florida, where Gunn practiced, the state legislature deliberated about and finally failed to pass a bill that would have made most anti-abortion demonstrations outside clinincs into acts of criminal trespass. Though this proposal was portrayed as a response to the assassination, the bill was actually filed before the tragedy occurred...