Word: murderers
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...enable the jury to more exactly delineate the separate scope of each defendant's guilt; the defense and prosecution agreed to allow the jury to consider lesser charges, including criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter, when considering each officer's case. The officers have all been charged with second-degree murder. This proposal, which was greeted with relief by the officers' families and general approval from the legal community, leaves the door wide open for Carroll to take the brunt of the blame while allowing the other three officers to escape with little more than harsh reprimands. On Thursday, Judge Teresi...
Legal experts posit that the prosecution knew, from the very beginning, they wouldn't get the murder convictions they asked for - while Diallo's death was bloody, it was not deliberate. It was the horrible by-product of the frayed psyches of young cops. And although the jury is likely to agree that Diallo's parents deserve justice for their son's killing, jurors will likely embrace the opportunity to acknowledge the varying degrees of guilt among the four police officers...
CHARGED. RAY LEWIS, 24, Baltimore Ravens Pro Bowl linebacker; with the fatal stabbing of two men after a Super Bowl party; in Atlanta. Lewis, who last season pledged $100 to the Police Athletic League for every 10 tackles he made, is the second NFL player to be charged with murder this year...
Edgar Ace Hope Jr. isn't someone you would want living next door. He has been found guilty in a string of crimes starting at age 14, when he stole a bag of groceries, and culminating in his conviction in two separate murders in 1983. Hope, now 40, has admitted one of those killings, for which he is expected to receive a life sentence at a new hearing. But he steadfastly denies committing the other crime--the slaying of a security guard at a Chicago McDonald's, for which he was sentenced to death. His lawyer last month detailed persuasive...
...begins a wild expedition that involves shark attacks (both real and fake), betrayal (guess who winds up getting the girl), murder and sex (not necessarily in that order). On the island, the trio discovers a community of travelers who coexist peacefully with a number of gun-toting drug farmers; paradise bordered by the leafy green of illegal substances. The pristine, natural setting of the beach is a direct contrast to the evil culture of intolerance that develops within the commune of travelers, a community on the fringes of society that enforces their own set of laws...