Word: conviction
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...judge's decision to proceed had been expected, says TIME writer Adam Cohen. "Consent is not a defense to murder," he says. "Kevorkian wants to challenge the law by pursuing jury nullification," says Cohen -- that is, the doctor hopes the jury will refuse to convict even in the face of overwhelming evidence. Not that an acquittal would overturn the law -- only the legislature can do that. But if Michigan jurors send a signal to state law enforcement that they don't want euthanasia cases prosecuted, Kevorkian -- and anyone else -- would be free to help terminally ill residents end their lives...
Technically, none of this is a defense to a murder charge. But jurors have long engaged in "jury nullification" in mercy killings, declining to convict even when the facts and law are damning. Still, juries are hard to predict. Last year a Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...
...eventually become just gross. Amazingly, Bates and Sandler manage to keep the unoriginal material quite hilarious; but even Sandler's comedic appeal cannot sustain the mindless Foxworthy humor. Fortunately, he does get some help from Fairuza Balk as Bobby's horny, buck-toothed and violent, but nonetheless sweet, ex-convict girlfriend. She demonstrates her love for Bobby by redesigning his riding lawnmower into a high-speed vehicle, romantically stealing Lawrence Taylor's Corvette and seductively gnawing on barbecued squirrel...
Australia wasn't like that. It began not as a place for self-appointed saints carrying out their radical notions of God's design, but as a jail, a receptacle for the convict outcasts of England. It had no rhetoric of God and Country, and mercifully still doesn't. It was born in sin, not in virtue. The walls of the prison were not brick and stone but space itself. Australia had no Mississippi or Missouri, no fertile center; explorers went out into it, found little but desert, and died. The literary myth of its landscape, created by writers from...
...Starr, refuse to concede any facts that might put Clinton in future legal jeopardy, and dare House Republicans to impeach him in a party-line vote. If they do, the assumption is that the Republicans could never get the 67 votes they would need in the Senate to convict him--leaving the President bloodied but vindicated. "We have no incentive to drag it out," says a senior adviser to the President. "But we do have a lot of incentive to go for total victory...