Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nuremberg principles to go by. The Army's prosecutor Capt. Aubrey Daniel, asked the judge early in the courtmartial, "We are presenting evidence at this time of a limited nature on one specific act of which Lieutenant Calley is charged. How is it relevant to bring in acts of misconduct by other people?" When this objection was overruled, he darkly warned. "The defense is going to broaden this whole thing. They want to bring in the acts of others, acts committed in different places, acts committed at different times, acts of a different nature, acts committed by different people...
...unconstitutional. Calling the closure "the essence of censorship," Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote: "That the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraints in dealing with official misconduct...
...that said, the book does pull together a disturbing quantity of evidence of business misconduct and negligence. The authors point to a commercial plane that crashed, killing 38, because of defective parts in its Allison engines. They note that occupational accidents killed 14,000 Americans in 1969, that by Government estimate ordinary household products "cause, or are associated with 20 million injuries a year." In addition, the book reports...
...will not revisit the issue of the CRR's legitimacy in the Harvard community; on that point, few minds are likely to be changed. I do think, however, that the CRR, charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct, has to rethink the manner in which it goes about undertaking that review...
...agreed to grant, a continuance to Veech and both. Baileys in response to an offer by the defendants. "The lawyers of the three defendants called and asked if the University would agree not to prosecute on the condition that they [the defendants] not engage in the same kind of misconduct again...