Word: legality
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...call. "I have a rare vision condition called achromatopsia which entails acute near-sightedness and colorblindness," he says. "Corrected, it is worse than 20/200, which is the legal cutoff for blindness. It's genetic. My brother has it too. We are two of the three people in the state of Oregon who have...
...decision to overrule the president, the council implied that the provision for removing an officer that existed prior to the 1997 amendment was the controlling authority. Even without legal training, council members should have known that an amendment supersedes earlier provisions. By blatantly disregarding the constitutional requirement for a popular vote to remove an executive officer, the resolution's sponsors--with the consent of the council--have divested the entire student body of its exclusive right...
...Public executions were still a part of Restoration culture, but executions and torture are very different. Executions were going on a lot during the Restoration, but torture was another case. Even during the Renaissance, there weren't actually any legal processes to torture people in England unless the monarch or the privy council gave a specific order for a specific torture of a specific person for one time...
...Well, there seems to be an attempt to curb violence in our culture, although were still a gun-toting country. And this is an outlet for violence that is safe and legal and a way to enjoy violence in a public arena, something we can't normally do since we don't have staged executions yet (though I imagine someday we will...
While Elliot's apparent inconsistencies may eventually nullify the legal effect of her testimony, it's hard to overestimate the emotional impact her tearful testimony may have on jurors, says White. "Up to this point, the testimony had been pretty dry." And although Elliot is admittedly unclear as to who yelled "Gun!" it may not matter in the long run. " There are two questions at the heart of this case," says White. "Did the police officers warn Diallo before they started shooting him, and did they keep shooting him after he'd gone down?" Even assuming the police did shout...