As a legislator, Young criticized the Halton School Board for approving Joyce Carol Oates's novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, for Grade Twelve English, against the wishes of parents who considered it obscene and overly violent.

But since medical-marijuana users in Ann Arbor are very rarely prosecuted, and because the penalty for first-time possession remains a $ 25 civil-infraction fine, both the 2004 ballot measure itself and Oates's subsequent statements on enforcement may prove to be more symbolic than substantive.

Campion is good friends with Inspector ( later Superintendent ) Stanislaus Oates of Scotland Yard, who is as by-the-book as Campion is unorthodox, and in later books with Oates's protégé Inspector Charles Luke.

It was only when, in July of the same year, Oates's accusation against the Queen's physician, Sir George Wakeman, appeared likely to involve the Queen herself in the ramifications of the plot, that Scroggs began to think matters were going too far ; he was probably also influenced by the discovery that the court regarded the plot with discredit and disfavour, and that the country party led by Shaftesbury had less influence than he had supposed with the King.

When Oates's accusations became known, the public became concerned.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

However while in his cell awaiting trial for theft, Barco, in a fit of apprehension, made an attempt to take his own life.

I studied Welch closely as the trial progressed for any hint which might give me a lead as to how he might be thwarted.

In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.

Sometimes when there are many outcomes for a single trial, we group these outcomes into two classes, as in the example of the die, where we have arbitrarily constructed the classes `` ace '' and `` not-ace ''.

Indeed, the experiment is better viewed as consisting of one binomial trial for the entire family.

Editor Foss stated, `` Of their guilt there can be no doubt but they are entitled to sufficient time to prepare for trial, and a fair trial ''.

The Providence Daily Post thought that there were probably good reasons for the haste in which the trial was being conducted and that the only thing gained by a delay would be calmer feelings.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

It was the trial of oleomargarine heir Minot ( Mickey ) Jelke for compulsory prostitution in New York that put the spotlight on the international play-girl.

The police credited him with twenty-five murders but he was never brought to trial for one of them.

The legend as it exists in Fall River today always includes the solemn assurance that Bridget returned to Ireland after the trial with a `` big bundle '' of cash which Lizzie gave her for keeping her mouth shut.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

Five held for trial

A full trial was ordered for:

Walker said he was considering filing a motion for a new trial which would contend that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that there were several errors in trial procedure.

The trial had packed the large courtroom for more than a week.

After a protracted, hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, leaves the legal question unresolved.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

-- The FBI yesterday arrested on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach a verdict in the `` Freedom Rider '' bus burning trial four weeks ago.

At an early stage in the trial however, it became apparent that he had lied under oath, and he was subsequently ( after the Major government had fallen from power ) convicted of perjury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.

In some countries such as France and Italy, suspects cannot be heard under oath or affirmation and thus cannot commit perjury, regardless of what they say during their trial.

On March 23, 1973, Judge Sirica read the court a letter from Watergate burglar James McCord alleging perjury had been committed in the Watergate trial, and defendants had been pressured to remain silent.

In a sensational trial lasting a month, Norris was charged with perjury and arson in connection with the two fires.

In the 1990s, Dalyell asked the Lord Advocate, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, to grant diplomatic immunity to Lester Coleman, a coauthor of Trail of the Octopus, so that he could give evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial in Scotland ; the Federal Government of the United States had indictments against Coleman, accusing him of passport fraud and perjury.

In Gotti's defense Cutler called bank robber Matthew Traynor, a would-be prosecution witness dropped for unreliability, who testified that Giacalone offered him drugs and her panties as a masturbation aid in exchange for his testimony ; Traynor's allegations would be dismissed by Judge Nickerson as " wholly unbelievable " after the trial, and he was subsequently convicted of perjury.

In that sworn statement, the organizers indicated that " Einhorn, given a small role on the stage at Earth Day, grabbed the microphone and refused to give up the podium for thirty minutes " During Einhorn ’ s murder trial, one of the Earth Day organizing committee members, psychiatrist Donald Nathanson, took the stand and under oath testified that the committee had barred Einhorn from their discussions, considering him a nuisance .. Again, under oath and penalty of perjury, Dr. Nathanson said there was no master of ceremonies and Einhorn ’ s only role at the event had been as a liaison with poet and featured speaker Allen Ginsberg.

The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U. S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

The FBI's case history notes, " Neither Brundidge nor the witness Yagi testified at trial because of the taint of perjury.

After being a Communist Party USA member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent later testifying in the perjury and espionage trial of Alger Hiss.

A notable contemporary example of this tactic was the claim by the defense in the Roger Clemens perjury trial to have the charges against Clemens dismissed due to " prosecutorial misconduct ", i. e. that the prosecution intentionally introduced video evidence which Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible, for the purposes of getting, in the words of the defense, " a second bite at the apple ", due to the prosecution's alleged poor performance.

After the trial, there was widespread pressure on Los Angeles County district attorney Gil Garcetti to bring perjury charges against Fuhrman.

A police investigation into allegations of perjury, conspiracy to commit perjury and witness intimidation has followed the trial.

The case was the longest perjury trial in Scottish history.

Direct testimonial evidence gained from this coercive questioning cannot be used in any subsequent criminal trial of the person providing the evidence, however a witness who testifies in his defence at a subsequent criminal trial who provides a different testimony to that during the questioning may face prosecution for perjury.

However the newspaper always stood by its story, and on 19 July 2001 Archer was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice at the 1987 trial and was sentenced to a total of four years ' imprisonment.

He was one of several SSP members who gave evidence in both the Sheridan defamation case and the subsequent trial for perjury.

This did not work either and, in fact, the entire affair did a lot to tarnish his reputation-there were strong suspicions that in order to strengthen his case he had resorted first, to forgery and then, perjury, although no charges were ever then brought to a trial.

Taking the stand, Eulenburg defended himself against Brand's charge by denying that he had ever held such events, and against Bülow's insinuation by claiming that he had never engaged in same-sex acts, which subsequently led to a perjury trial.

On 15 February 2008, Byrne was arrested on suspicion of perjury in relation to the Sheridan defamation trial.

Clinton is acquitted of all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial

During a trial, perjury, forgery, and bribery of a witness constitute frauds that might have been relieved by the court.