Word: conviction
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...jury instead. In reality, according to Steve Oney, author of a history of the case to be published next year, Frank was represented by two of the most respected members of Atlanta's legal elite, and their defense rested largely on the assumption that a Southern jury would never convict a white man on the basis of a black man's testimony...
WASHINGTON: The House's older, wiser brother is finally living up to its deliberative billing. Senators on both sides of the aisle agreed Sunday that the apparent shortage of votes to convict Bill Clinton wouldn't -- and shouldn't -- stop the Senate from holding a trial. Censure, which Orrin Hatch on Sunday couldn't help qualifying as "the next best thing," now looks like the only thing left. For the bored majority of Americans, of course, the question is the same as it is for the White House: How much longer...
Some carriers have already taken action. Northwest Airlines has permanently blacklisted three violent travelers from flying. Yet prosecuting air rage isn't easy; many countries have no jurisdiction over a passenger who arrives on a foreign airline. In the U.S., the Justice Department is working harder to convict defendants; last summer a man who threw hot coffee on a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency door was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. This fall British Airways began handing out "warning cards" to anyone getting dangerously out of control. Some airlines include a pair...
...House decides to impeach the President on Thursday, a political majority which despises Bill Clinton and wants to remove him from office at any cost will have prevailed, at the expense of the integrity of the Constitution. House Republicans know that the Senate will likely not convict Bill Clinton if the case goes to trial. Nevertheless, they would use the constitutional procedure of impeachment as a substitute for censure. This amounts to a grave abuse of their power...
...GWYNNE was in Huntsville, Texas, covering the search for an escaped convict when he got word from Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin that the General Accounting Office was releasing a report on Citibank's relationship with an accused murderer. For four months, Gwynne, a former banker and TIME's Austin bureau chief, had been investigating private banking, traveling around the U.S. and to Switzerland to track down money trails, so he rushed back to Austin to begin writing. "This story evolved in a perfect way," he says. "We researched a good idea for months, and when a news peg finally came...