In Bushell's case habeas corpus was used to release a juryman who had been gaoled for returning what the court regarded as a perverse verdict. |
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Since Labour took office in 1997 an additional 6,000 have been gaoled, making the numbers imprisoned per head of population the highest in Europe after Portugal. |
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At Tower Hill there was general antagonism towards the press, except from Mr Tony Merrick, probably the most articulate of the gaoled dockers. |
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Another point we made, that was not made elsewhere, was that, as many may recall, Al Capone was gaoled not as a gangster but for tax evasion. |
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His father had been bayoneted to death by Assamese riflemen of the Indian Army in 1956, and his mother gaoled. |
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Many draft resisters, conscientious objectors and protesters had been fined or gaoled, while soldiers sometimes met a hostile reception on their return home. |
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Incidentally, is it just us who read goaled as gaoled? |
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There he was gaoled, tortured and held incommunicado for five months. |
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Amnesty International has declared that it considers people who are gaoled on the grounds of their sexual preference or for exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly to be prisoners of conscience. |
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Jeremy Bamber, the farmer's son who boasted that he could commit the perfect crime, was gaoled for 25 years yesterday after he was found guilty of murdering five members of his family. |
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Repression has returned with the usual suspects such as lawyers and human rights activists gaoled under emergency laws at the price of pro forma protests from the US and EU – still waiting for Syria to play those cards. |
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If the killer is gaoled, his children and cousins will avenge him. |
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Mr Stennett led a campaign to get a new trial for Kevin Frieze who was gaoled for three years for allegedly throwing a corner flag at a police officer in Ninian Park. |
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