Crime and Punishment
jŭk'stə-pōz'- To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
Expressing doubt that incarceration would make the defendant reform or repent, a federal judge nevertheless sentenced an antiwar campaigner on Monday to serve six months in prison for his role in damaging a military recruiting center during a protest in 2003. ***
In 2003, using methods more commonly seen in the Vietnam War era, Mr. Burns, who is now 45, and three other activists - Clare T. Grady, 47, her sister Teresa B. Grady, 40, and Peter J. De Mott, 59 - spilled vials of blood on the walls, windows and American flag of the recruiting center in Lansing, near Ithaca, to protest the impending invasion of Iraq.
The defendants, who are part of the Catholic Worker Movement and call themselves the St. Patrick's Four because the protest took place on St. Patrick's Day three years ago, were first tried in state court, where a judge allowed them to argue at length that the United States violated international law when it attacked Iraq.
When that case ended in a hung jury, a federal prosecutor, Miroslav Lovric, filed charges of trespassing, damaging government property and conspiracy.
A military jury ordered a reprimand but no jail time Monday for an Army interrogator convicted of negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi general who died after he stuffed him headfirst into a sleeping bag and sat on his chest.
The interrogator, Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr., also was ordered to forfeit $6,000 in salary and was largely restricted to his barracks and workplace for 60 days. ***
Prosecutors said Mr. Welshofer had put a sleeping bag over the head of the Iraqi, Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, and used his hand to cover his mouth while questioning him at a detention camp in Iraq in 2003.
"Stuff and nonsense!"
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