Word: felon
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Steinbrenner's team won the World Series last year and the year before, vindicating his capricious rule of the turbulent Yankees. In 1973, he pleaded nolo contendre to a felony chargeand started from scratch with a moribund franchise. He's still a felon--but a winner...
Last week a bearded Huey Newton, 36, imprisoned since Sept. 29 and half forgotten by the world that he once so loudly challenged, appeared in the Alameda County Court. There he received a new sentence of two years on a technical charge of carrying a gun while a felon, but he won his release on $50,000 bail pending appeal. Later this month, however, he is to go on trial for the street-corner shooting of a 17-year-old prostitute...
Congress in 1975 gave Americans the right to find out what information is kept on them in Government files. However laudable the law's purpose, some of the Freedom of Information Act's most avid users have turned out to be criminals. Last month Convicted Felon Gary Bowdach told a Senate subcommittee that he had filed "scores" of FOI requests with the FBI for himself and fellow inmates at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta "to try to identify informants." Why? "To eradicate them," Bowdach replied...
...culprit has been dubbed "Marijuana Mouse," alias "Happy." Delirious would be more like it. Three times the D.A.'s staff set traps for the mouse, and three times the little felon made off with the bait-more marijuana. Why not try cheese? Says Linda Callahan, the D.A.'s secretary: "We give him what he wants." No dope, that rodent. Nope, no dope...
...most states, judges can sentence a convicted robber, say, to between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors out of prisoners." Under the Illinois plan, the judge will assign a specifically legislated term-two, three or four years for a robbery felony, depending on circumstances. The convict's sentence can be reduced only by accumulation of "good time"-a day off for each day of trouble-free prison...