Word: appealling
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...million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine intervention - with coffins containing opponents' effigies - might swing the recount...
Despite the good news last week, the legal battles are far from over for Felt and Miller. They plan to appeal and, more important, they must prepare for a string of civil suits brought by those whose homes were broken into...
...year sentence where a 25-year sentence is permissible under the statute," he argued, "constitutes a finding that the facts justify only a ten-year sentence." Brennan warned that the logical extension of the court's reasoning might allow Congress to grant prosecutors the power to appeal acquittals...
...just that rationale that prompted the Senate to include a sentence-appeal provision in its version of the proposed mammoth revision of the criminal code, which has been lumbering through Congress for 14 years. As drafted, the provision would permit either side in a federal case to appeal sentences that fall outside a middle range. Under present law the Government may appeal only when the defendant is judged a dangerous special offender (like DiFrancesco) or a "special drug offender." As for defendants, they can appeal only sentences that are cruel and unusual, discriminatory, or beyond the statutory range...
With the more conservative cast of the new Congress, prospects for passage of the full revised code are bleak. Yet backers of the sentence-appeal provision remain hopeful. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the double-jeopardy objection to the provision, they believe they have enough support to have it removed from the main bill and passed separately...