Word: wrongdoers
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...attention to victims is a comment in part on the frustrations of criminal law. Plea bargains, delays and judicial concern constitutional for suspects' rights can rescue a wrongdoer. Moreover, a criminal trial pits a defendant against soci ety; the victim is not a party. As a result, more and more victims are going to civil court in quest of damages. Says Wyoming Attorney Johnson Gerry Spence: "Such cases are as close to basic historical justice as man has ever known...
...Alexander von Auersperg, who initiated the investigation that led to the charges, were "quietly satisfied" when told of the verdict, according to their attorney, Richard Kuh. Said he: "Mrs. Von Bülow will be in a coma for the rest of her life. At least, seeing a wrongdoer brought to justice makes the trial seem it has not been all in vain...
...nature of Watergate, the President disclosed that a month earlier he had ordered a new investigation of the Watergate breakin; it had produced "real progress finding the truth." Contrary to his previous orders, White House personnel would now be permitted to appear before the Senate Watergate Committee; however, no wrongdoer on the White House staff would be granted immunity from prosecution. Some Nixon supporters were certain that the statement ended Watergate. The culprits had obviously been discovered; the matter could now be left to judicial processes. In reality, the primary significance of the White House statement was to begin Nixon...
...then a law student. She filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
...this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney ambles ineluctably after the wrongdoer...