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...Diet last week approved far stiffer laws, including a kidnap penalty of three years to life, and the country's first kidnap-conspiracy rap (one month to two years). But if kidnapers give their victim a break, they will still get a break from the law: those who surrender and do not harm their victims will have their sentences halved. With time off for good behavior, a kidnaper sentenced to life may be sprung in seven years...
...addition to bagging bums, police use vagrancy laws as catchalls with which to hold crime suspects during investigations, to keep tabs on illicit activities, to chase undesirables out of town, and to pester criminals on whom they have been unable to pin a rap. In general, the attitude is that the laws are there to use when no other law will serve. New Orleans uses vagrancy laws to jail gamblers. St. Louis police haul in prostitutes for vagrancy "just to let them know we have them under surveillance." In Philadelphia a man who insisted on making love to his wife...
...Trend. The ease with which Costello beat the rap shows the weakness of vagrancy laws. Yet precisely because the prosecution usually backs off so fast on such charges when the accused is prepared to fight, vagrancy laws are seldom tested in court, where they would almost certainly be ruled unconstitutional...
...change on Beacon Hill since the indictments. Legislator and lobbyist are reportedly more circumspect, but the old brazen spirit still shows through, as the legislators passed a bill to reimburse themselves for legal fees incurred in their defense against indictments. The only hitch is that they must beat the rap to qualify. But even then, there is no clear reason why they alone, of all criminal defendants in the Commonwealth, are entitled to have their lawyers paid by the public. They, and the electorate, would do well to recall Article VII of the first part of Massachusett's constitution...
Beat the Parking Rap. A detailed explanation of the methods of University Police in ticketing illegally- parked cars may help you to find a nearby overnight haven for your automobile when you are too tired to walk back from the Business School parking...