Word: conviction
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...flight. There was also a sense among some leathernecks that Ashby was targeted for punishment that should have been more evenly shared. All that was apparently sufficient for at least three of the eight Marine jurors to vote not guilty (military juries require only two-thirds to convict) after seven hours of deliberation. Ashby still faces charges of destroying a videotape of the flight, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice...
...doesn?t faze convict-journalist Wilbert Rideau that he won?t be able to attend this year?s Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, "The Farm: Angola, USA," is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. ?One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective,? says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. ?The award would be nice, but it won?t change...
...Senate was split evenly when voting on the charge of obstruction of justice, with only five Republican Senators defecting from the party line vote. The vote on the perjury charge garnered only 45 votes for conviction, with 10 Republican Senators voting against conviction. Each charge needed a two-thirds majority to convict...
...parties are also set to do battle over the "finding of fact," a resolution concluding that the President committed any number of offenses, from misleading the grand jury to coaching witnesses. The measure would have no bearing on conviction or acquittal but would give Republicans the chance to issue a formal denunciation, now that it is all but certain Clinton will be let off. If a Senator thought the President lied but did not commit perjury, for example, he or she could vote to affirm the lie in the finding of fact without voting to convict on impeachment. Some conservative...
Daschle has absorbed far more pressure from the defendant in the White House. Months before the impeachment articles ever reached the Senate, Clinton called the minority leader asking if it might be possible to find 34 Democrats who would sign a letter saying they would never convict, no matter what the evidence. Daschle buried the idea, but not before Byrd took to the well of the Senate to accuse the White House of jury tampering. When Daschle, who has denounced Clinton's behavior as well as the White House legal team's hairsplitting, joined Lott in fashioning a blueprint...