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Harvard's only weaknesses surfaced in the sprints. The tidelands failed to place in the 200 meter dash, but Marjorie Scharoun Managed a fourth in the 95 meter dash, and Miriquita "Sheets" Princeton took third in the 55 mete hardles with a time of 8.99 seconds Patterson also grabbed third in the long jump with a 5.26 meter effort...
...would be your prognosis?" Anderson asked. Grigson said he saw only more of the same ahead. The lawyer then revealed that the case history belonged to Ron LeFlore, now a star for the Chicago White Sox. Even so, Anderson just barely succeeded. Eleven of the twelve jurors wanted to mete out the death penalty anyway...
...cases make up the standard fare of a small claims court. The restriction of payments to monetary (as opposed to equity) payments, limited to $500, exclude more serious cases of life and death or multi-digit law suits with multi-digit lawyer fees. Small claims provides a service to mete out justice in the everyday affairs of the consumer, and for a small fee ($5) anyone can bring forth his or her grievance. As for the hapless student ripped off by the tennis placement agency, she never got justice, but if she had tried a few of the alternatives...
Sentences can be harsh; some economic crimes, such as major embezzlement of state property, can even bring death. Judges generally do not hand down the long prison hitches that U.S. courts often mete out in anticipation of early parole, but Soviet convicts are more likely to serve full terms. And they toil hard, both in the prisons where repeat offenders or dangerous criminals are kept and in the work camps housing most of the convict population of about 2 million...
While few disagree with that assessment, there is no consensus over any proposed reform. University of Colorado Law Professor Albert Alschuler argues that determinate sentencing may only force more plea bargaining; with judges and parole boards no longer empowered to mete out mercy, defendants will be under greater pressure to plead guilty to lesser offenses. Concludes Alschuler: "The big winners will be the prosecutors." Chicago's Morris is worried that state legislatures, with their susceptibility to demagoguery on a sensitive issue like crime, "can't be trusted" to set humane sentences...