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...courts have their comic aspects (except for the defendants) but both the sequence and the outcome of Mr. Ezera's trial appear to provide the very antithesis of a parody. Of two things choose one: either Mr. Ezera lied (which seemed doubtful) when he denied involvement with the theft; or the plaintiff McGaw made a serious mistake when she originally identified the defendent. The arresting officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives...
When Malin's discharge case finally came to trial last December, all witnesses received compensatory fees and travel allowances--except the charging party, Malin, whose months of preparation and attendance at the trial effectively precluded him from holding any employment. Malin has heard of cases where the charging party chose not to proceed with the trial because he couldn't afford to costs...
...cases of "blatant racism." Facts refute this contention. Emeka was arrested solely on the basis of a white woman's accusation that he stole her purse. Yet the description she gave of the accused prior to ever seeing Emeka did not even resemble Emeka's actual physical characteristics, except of course, that he is Black. That this woman has a problem distinguishing one Black man from another became painfully obvious during the trial. Claiming that she had seen had seen the thief earlier in the courtroom, she then proceeded, on counsel's advice, to walk through the courtroom looking...
Sometimes, however, the informational process fails to overcome the preconceived notions evoked by the University's image. One highly-qualified Brown athlete applied to all the Lvy schools except Harvard because he thought it was "full of geniuses. Although he enjoys Brown, he regrets not having looked into Harvard--"I know I was wrong"--but is glad he did not go to Yale, where high-powered tactics nearly convinced him to spend four years in New Haven. "I cried when I turned the Yale coach down, after he flew me in--but now I realize he put undue pressure...
...hostages. In the U.S., Carter spent the Easter weekend with his family at Camp David, pondering whether to give the Iranian leaders more time to change their minds or to impose immediately his long threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions. These would include a ban on all exports to Iran except food and drugs, a request that American allies reduce their trade with Tehran, and the expulsion of all Iranian diplomats in the U.S. Short of military action, these were the strongest weapons that Jimmy Carter could use in the longest and most frustrating crisis of his presidency...