Word: defections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with little wriggle room. Their last best chance to avoid the death penalty may lie in a kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane...
...could mean more reproductive choices for the infertile, they could also create tricky ethical and legal issues. Indeed, almost every clinical advance in assisted reproduction leads to unforeseen dilemmas. Take ICSI, which on its face seems utterly benign. In some cases, male infertility may be caused by a genetic defect; helping a man with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children--a legal quagmire, since the dead...
PENIS PUZZLE Doctors can't explain why, but since 1970 the rate of boys born with their urinary opening in the wrong place has doubled. This peculiar defect appears in nearly 1 out of 100 male births...
...mentally ill? Or not? The inquisitive visitors were two prosecution psychiatrists, and the answers they got may not help the "mental defect" defense that Kaczynski's lawyers are planning for his trial, which starts Nov. 12. "I can't imagine anybody saying he's insane," says Becky Garland, 41, who befriended Kaczynski while working at Garland's Town & Country store in Lincoln. "You might say that anyone who makes mail bombs is insane. But insane by law? I don't think he was that...
...guilt phase or during the penalty phase that would follow a conviction, in an attempt to avoid a death sentence. But proving such a defense is difficult. Instead of arguing that he was insane, Kaczynski's lawyers seem to be planning a defense that he suffered from a mental defect that impaired his ability to form an intent to commit the crimes. Nevertheless, as far as his old neighbors seem to think, Ted Kaczynski, the former math professor, was gentle, soft-spoken and painfully shy. Last Friday Kaczynski's lawyers said he was refusing to submit to court-ordered psychiatric...