21.   For more than a decade, most demonstrators arrested at protests on the streets of New York City for minor offenses received summonses and were sent home.

22.   For those minor offenses deportation can be waived, under strict conditions.

23.   Frightened of the pursuit, Rudolph got himself jailed on a minor offense in hopes he would escape notice as the much-wanted Missouri Kid.

24.   Garvey said the low fines reflected the relatively minor offenses commited by the industries.

25.   He became abusive, she said, and arrested her for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, both minor offenses.

26.   He bounced in and out of federal prisons and local jails on minor non-violent offenses.

27.   He also has the cooperation of four friends and business associates of Edwards, each of whom pleaded guilty to relatively minor offenses in the last month.

28.   He has not been charged with smuggling people, which is not a crime in Poland and only a minor offense in most European countries.

29.   He knows he has become a case study of how inflexible federal mandatory sentencing can deal stiff punishment for relatively minor offenses.

30.   He made a name for himself by making numerous arrests, even for minor offenses.