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Jury selection is currently under way in New York City for Goldstein's retrial on charges that he murdered a woman by pushing her in front of a subway train. Last November, a jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor of conviction.
But something will be missing this time around. In an effort to show the real Andrew Goldstein - if such a person exists - his lawyers have taken him off the medication that keeps his schizophrenia under control. So the jurors will not see a chemically calmed defendant this time; what they...
So far in this trial, Goldstein has been alert, more so than the first time. But the downside is already manifesting itself: Twice in the past week Goldstein is reported to have struck a court social worker. Judge Carol Berkman has said that she will force Goldstein to take his...
Except, of course, if you believe that a liberal arts education should be untainted by the specter of naked greed. Ostensibly, the undergraduate experience is an opportunity to contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for...
At that time, the judge sentenced Stuckey to a two-year jail term, but suspended it for time already served. The court has also ordered him to pay a $60 fine and $533.20 in restitution to his victims. Under that original agreement, Stuckey was supposed to check in with the...