21.   Lomax added that is unusual, because airport police often are alerted to crimes as minor as pickpocket scams.

22.   Many of the people Bush has pardoned were either teen-agers or young adults convicted of relatively minor crimes.

23.   More than half were granted to people convicted of minor crimes in their youth.

24.   Most had no arrest records or arrests for minor crimes, he said.

25.   Often, it is the passive, emotionally vulnerable patients originally committed for minor crimes who pay the price.

26.   On an individual level, legal immigrants convicted of minor crimes would be deported with no judicial review.

27.   On another immigration-related matter, a group of Democratic senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow legal immigrants convicted of minor crimes to avoid mandatory deportation.

28.   Police jail those accused even of minor crimes while their identities are verified by fingerprints and records are checked to make sure they are not wanted on other crimes.

29.   Price, who had a long history of minor crimes and drug addiction, referred to those sentiments.

30.   Police officers say they often arrest a mentally ill person for minor crimes, such as trespassing or shoplifting.