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After the police caught Weissman by tracing his license number, a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder, vehicular homicide, and leaving the scene of an accident. Yet last week Eddie Weissman got off with only a mild sentence for second-degree manslaughter. Why?
Quite apart from their moral and spiritual indifference, people who make suicide a spectator sport may be charged with a serious crime. The police, who busied themselves with trying to move the mobs back, were apparently unaware of it, but New York State has two highly relevant laws. Section 2304...
Too Light a Rap? The battle goes back to June, when a car driven by Charles N. Morris, assistant district attorney of Eddy County, rammed into a car carrying a Mexican-American farm worker named Gregorio Molina, his wife, and eight of their children. The parents and three of the...
Such reasoning did not impress Harrison, who decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New...
One night two weeks ago, police laid a roadside ambush for two longtime Lechin lieutenants, Federico Escobar and Irineo Pimentel, who were wanted on a series of charges ranging from embezzlement to manslaughter. After a blazing gunfight, the two union men were dragged off to jail. When word of the...