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After their marriage, the Lovings returned home to Central Point. They were arrested at night by the county sheriff who had received an anonymous tip, [19] and charged with "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth." They pled guilty and were convicted by the Caroline County Circuit Court on January 6, 1959 ...
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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
On their return to Virginia, they were arrested in their bedroom for living together as an interracial couple. The judge suspended their sentence on the condition that the Lovings leave Virginia and not return for 25 years. In 1963, the Lovings, who had moved to Washington, D.C., decided to appeal this judgment.
At about 1 a.m. Sept. 11, deputies responded to a report of a shooting and found two unresponsive men who were bleeding as they were lying on the sidewalk, according to the sheriff’s department.
Relatives and friends said the family’s “amazing’’ reputation is what makes the news of Luigi’s arrest all the more shocking — particularly if he was driven by anger over the ...
Phil Hirschkop. Philip Jay Hirschkop (born May 14, 1936) is an American civil rights lawyer. With fellow American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) volunteer cooperating attorney Bernard S. Cohen, the two represented Mildred and Richard Loving in several court cases to overturn the Lovings' conviction for interracial marriage in the state of Virginia. [1]
Almost 100 people have been arrested for alleged child sex abuse and 13 children were rescued in an international operation two years after a pair of FBI agents investigating the ring were ...