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...Bernie and Edward McLaughlin of suburban Charlestown, the other by James ("Buddy") McLean and his pals from nearby Somerville. By last week, Bernie and Edward McLaughlin and Buddy McLean were dead, mowed down by unknown assassins; George McLaughlin was in death row at Walpole State Prison on a murder rap; bodies were still falling...
...court refused to review an 82-day rap for disorderly conduct. Shuttlesworth got that one during his 1958 effort to desegregate Birmingham buses. His crime: not moving to the rear...
...went Shuttlesworth's 180-day rap for arguing with Birmingham's police chief while the latter was taking Freedom Riders into "protective custody." Alabama's highest state court had refused to review the case because Shuttlesworth's lawyers petitioned on the wrong-size paper...
...other law (Section 241) is the main U.S. weapon against anti-civil-rights violence by civilians. Originally designed to encourage Negro voting, that law provides a ten-year rap if "two or more persons conspire" to deprive any person of his federal rights. In 1951, however, an evenly divided (4-4) Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that Section 241 protects only a limited class of federal rights, such as interstate travel. As a result, the U.S. could not use it to enforce a citizen's Fourteenth Amendment rights of due process and equal protection...
Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry for twenty-six years, is back in his office after a bout with lung cancer, fully convinced that he "took the rap" for forty-five years of heavy smoking...