Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parallels between the two men are dramatic. Each had only a third-grade education, was sentenced to the same reform school at nine, went on to commit double murders, and displayed a superior intelligence. The father's goals, however, were different: he studied hard and became the first convict in history to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After his release from prison in 1983, Bosket Sr. found work as a university teaching assistant...
...cavernous gap between the number of crimes committed and the space available to lock up criminals makes it almost impossible to budge those odds. According to Justice Department estimates, by the time the cells Bush wants to build are ready, the federal convict population will have grown to 84,000, which is 17,000 more than the expanded system is designed to accommodate. Study after study has shown that only a fraction of all reported crimes result in arrest, and only a fraction of those people arrested are sent to prison. During the past three decades, there have never been...
WASHINGTON--Lt. Col. Oliver North's jury debated his guilt or innocence in a tightly guarded room yesterday, as an alternate juror who heard all the testimony said she would have voted to convict him on some of the 12 charges...
Government prosecutors have amply proved their ability to persuade white- collar offenders on Wall Street to confess and plead guilty, but can the Feds convict anybody in a court trial? In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations, Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly deadlocked...
...unsettled by his growing interest in Aloysius Prettiman, a figure of caricature in the earlier books but now a man, seriously ill, who attracts Talbot's sympathy. Prettiman, a political radical, and his new wife are transporting a printing press with which they hope to stir change in the convict colony. Talbot reprimands stiffly: "And you, sir, travelling with the avowed intention of making trouble -- of troubling this Antipodean society which is created wholly for its own betterment!" Yet the young Englishman could become dry tinder for Prettiman's incendiary rhetoric: "Imagine our caravan, we, a fire down below here...