11.   First- and second-time offenders, nabbed for minor crimes, can be diverted from Juvenile Court only if they admit their guilt.

12.   Five said they had friends or relatives who had been jailed for minor crimes in the past.

13.   Far less punishing, yet more typical, is the effect on people caught in the wide net the police have thrown over those suspected of committing minor crimes.

14.   For example, legal immigrants convicted of minor crimes could be deported without judicial review.

15.   He had brushes with the law for minor crimes but was never on an international watchlist, despite his contacts with extremists and strange behavior at airports.

16.   He suggested changes in the juvenile court system to give judges more flexibility in punishing youngsters convicted of minor crimes.

17.   Hundreds of immigrants across the country have been deported for relatively minor crimes, and even the Immigration and Naturalization Service says the law should be changed.

18.   In most places in the United States, spitting in public is considered a minor crime.

19.   In isolated cases in recent years, children adopted abroad who had not been naturalized were deported after committing minor crimes.

20.   In the process the authority of police departments was thrown into question, and minor crimes such as burglary became the business of the FBI.