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...bitter, unstable woman who had bought a gun, lured him to the house and murdered him out of jealousy and anger over the divorce. That trial ended with a hung jury. At her second, nine men and three women debated just two hours before finding her guilty of the lesser charge, second-degree murder. Collins' appeals were denied, and the parole board last year recommended against clemency. Orlando prosecutor Dorothy Sedgwick is certain that justice was done. "Rita Collins is a classic example of how a woman can decide to kill her husband and use the battered woman's syndrome...
Stuart D. Lesser, president of the Neighborhood 10 Association, agrees...
...While each neighborhood has its own concerns, which are particular issues that come up at any given time, I think there's a commonality that exists among them," Lesser says...
...Lesser says his group is working together with "a number of neighborhood organizations" on "town gown" concerns and issues having to do with the schools...
Jonathan Pollard was arrested in 1985 and charged by the U.S. government with spying for Israel. Hoping to receive a lesser sentence and to avoid a media trial that would have involved classified material, Pollard agreed to a plea bargain. He received a promise that, in exchange, the court would impose a sentence of "a substantial period of incarceration and a monetary fine"--language that legal experts interpreted to mean a sentence less than life imprisonment...