Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's sensational revelations of the tyrant's betrayals of "Socialist legality." Soviet citizens have been told that they will get formal safeguards under the law. All leading Soviet jurists now brand as "erroneous" the specious justifications by which the late Andrei Vishinsky, Stalin's top prosecutor, 1) upheld police terror, 2) used confessions alone to prove guilt, and 3) when no law applied, invoked other laws "by analogy" to send innumerable men to death or slavery in the theatrical purge trials...
...sentence: death by hanging for Jamali and three others. On hearing the verdict, Jamali seemed almost to lose his balance, then leaned wearily on the railing of the prisoner's box. An assistant prosecutor bawled: "Long live justice! Long live the republic!" Out on the Baghdad streets, the mob howled its joy, clamored for even more death sentences. The mob was clearly closing in on General Kassem, who alone has the power of clemency. The U.S. and Britain felt horror and shock at the verdict (they had expected a prison term), but knew that any public statement by them...
...find things out for herself. At 25, she has found out what it is like to be a vagrant, a prostitute, a gambler's shill, a convicted perjurer who has already served a total of three years in prison. At 30, according to California's public prosecutor, she finds out about murder-by pistol-whipping an old woman to death in the course of an unsuccessful robbery...
...four were sentenced to prison terms-but not enough to suit Komsomolskaya Pravda, which complained especially because Shashkin, who did the actual shooting, got only 25 years. Why not death? demanded the paper. Under Soviet law, either the defense or the prosecution can appeal. Last week, on the prosecutor's appeal, the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ordered death by firing squad for Stilyaga Shashkin...
...contributing to the delinquency of minors by making her children truants. The Wolfes politely turned down a request that they return the children to school, so last week the board met to take action. The law, in strictest letter, was on the board's side, yet from District Prosecutor Wayne MacGregor Jr.-supported by State Attorney General Graydon Smith-came an unexpected defense. Asked MacGregor: "May a person of school age no longer reside in a locality of his own choosing unless it is within walking distance of a school or is served by a school...