Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Connally's future was turned over to a federal jury of four men and eight women, ten of them black. Conviction would not only have destroyed his career but could have led to a sentence of up to four years in prison, a fine of as much as $20,000, plus possible further prosecution on perjury and conspiracy charges. After five hours of deliberation, the jurors declared the defendant not guilty. Jacobsen was sentenced to two years' probation...
...career in Government service, he finds himself buried in an obscure job with the Nixon White House. So remote is his office that it becomes the perfect hiding place for a trunk containing a million dollars in unlaundered bills. Starbuck is sent off to a minimum-security prison in Georgia, the least heralded co-conspirator in all of Watergate. He muses later: "It was like being in a wonderful musical comedy where the critics mentioned everybody but me." No sooner is his two-year hitch in stir over than Starbuck runs afoul of more millions. He stumbles into a decrepit...
...show-biz celebrities, including Jane's father Henry. But Brown's cause was not helped by an earlier appointment. On Hayden's recommendation, he had named Chris Matthews to the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors. Matthews, who had spent a year and a half in prison for smuggling marijuana, then appointed John Hanna to the agricultural advisory board in Santa Cruz. Hanna is appealing a five-year sentence for bombing crop-dusting aircraft in protest against pesticides...
...vaguely defined constitutional rights, judges have assumed?some say usurped?unaccustomed roles. Increasingly, judges, state and federal, can be found ordering government boards and agencies to obey the law. When the boards balk, as they often do, judges end up running school boards, welfare agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects into receivership under court control because they had been mismanaged by the Boston housing authority. Such decisions often require judges to rule on specific questions like garbage removal from tenements, proper bus routes for schoolchildren and minimum...
...nation's federal judges have been tried and convicted by Congress in the nation's history, none since 1936. Convicted of income tax evasion, perjury, bribery, conspiracy and mail fraud in 1973, Federal Judge Otto Kerner resigned from the bench only five days before he was scheduled to enter prison. Federal Judge Herbert Fogel of Philadelphia, implicated in a scandal involving backdated documents to win a Government bid in 1970, took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a grand jury. He resigned last year before any disciplinary action was taken against him. Federal Judge Willis Ritter, infamous for an abusive...