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Reformers like Alschuler and Morris think that judges should be involved in plea bargaining. Rather than prosecutors making deals based on a "rap sheet" and an arrest report, negotiations should be done out in the open, with the defendant present and with more thorough pre-sentence investigation. Others question whether judges are any less arbitrary than prosecutors and look to mandatory sentences fixed by legislatures as the answer...
Although Ray, 50, originally pleaded guilty to the slaying, he recanted a week after being sentenced in 1969. Jackson seemed persuaded that Ray has been taking the rap for others, although the prisoner apparently produced no new evidence. Nonetheless, said Jackson, "I am absolutely convinced that Ray was involved, but was not alone. He says he was used, and I believe it. Others involved are still walking the streets. The very thought of a conspiracy is what compels me to help...
Some injuries are simply the result of the athlete's being a klutz. California Tennis Guru Vic Braden points out that neophyte tennis players quite often cut themselves opening a can of balls, regularly rap partners in the head during warmups, or slip and fall on balls dropped on the court. Even the experienced player occasionally comes to grief. Says Columnist Art Buchwald, who has been sporting a cast on his badly sprained left leg: "I was going for one tennis ball and slipped on another." And there are the freak accidents. Like the Kansas City, Mo., runner...
...Angolans, Russians, Mexicans, Britons, Vietnamese and even a 400-member U.S. delegation trooped into Havana for singing, dancing, stadium pageantry, rap sessions and some frolicking on Cuba's beaches, they faced an additional event: the Youth Accuses Imperialism International Tribunal. A panel of eight "judges," headed by Uruguayan Physician Hugo Villar, heard scores of witnesses reel off accusations-some old, some true, many distorted or false-against the CIA. One star witness was Philip Agee, a former CIA agent now turned professional anti-agency muckraker. Other witnesses related details of a 1962 CIA poisoning scheme (during a time, admittedly...
...Quite a rap at Western democracy, particularly the U.S. version. How valid are Solzhenitsyn's criticisms? TIME asked eight Americans-all members of "the ruling groups and the intellectual elite " that Solzhenitsyn was scolding-to respond...