Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporting one of the jewelry-store robberies or other holdups to which he admits. Says Claire Sterling, author of an influential book, The Time of the Assassins, which argues that there was indeed a plot: "I believe in the Bulgarian connection, but frankly, I couldn't have voted to convict those defendants on that evidence...
...fact, Meese's statements constitute far more than the incoherent ramblings of a narrow-minded ideologue, since they typify a broad repressive trend within the criminal justice system. Increasingly, this attitude has characterized a significant proportion of the people in positions to convict criminals, sentence them, strike down their appeals, sign their death warrants, and flick the switch on the chair. Juvenile execution is simply the most obvious example, since the execution of minors requires an idea brutal and convincing enough to obliterate the traditional sympathies which compel us to extend lenience to children...
Wellesley Dean of Students Molly S. Campbellsaid she hopes and expects that Harvard willpunish De Voe, Cleary, and Oehmler, even thoughthe courts did not convict them...
...Governor and two former Pentagon officials had reason to celebrate last week as juries declined to convict them of white-collar crimes. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards declared himself a winner after a New Orleans jury deadlocked on racketeering and fraud charges related to a hospital investment scheme that netted Edwards $1.9 million between terms as Governor. A mistrial was declared ^ after seven days of deliberation because two jurors held out for conviction on most of the 50 counts. In New York, Thomas Reed, a former Air Force Secretary and Reagan assistant, was acquitted of profiting in the stock market through...
...evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment...