Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Momma sends her son locks of her hair; a hypocritically-pious spinster drags a burly cop off to bed; the bitch-goddess type has tacked above her bed the wooden leg of her first seducer--an albino hypnotherapist. It can be too much, even if you are prepared to accept most anything...
...High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen a gun, 800 rounds of ammunition, and had robbed two homes. "Sure we'll take him," said Becker, who promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions...
Though no defense lawyer can eliminate all pretrial opinion, he can diminish it by asking veniremen exactly what they have read in the press-and then prod them to reconsider it entirely in terms of reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury...
Getty then went over all the possible verdicts Speck might receive, asking whether the venireman would be willing to sign "not guilty" if he was in doubt and whether he would accept a jail sentence instead of death if Speck was found guilty. The venireman insisted that he could sign "not guilty," and that he could agree to a jail sentence. Getty asked the question again; suddenly the man did a turnabout, blurting out that the only verdict he could accept was the death penalty. Excused, for cause...
...Mossler inherited $9,000,000 or $33 million by the death of Jacques Mossler," he beamed. "She would not have inherited one penny of this had she not been acquitted." In Texas, a lawyer can work for a 50% contingency fee. "Therefore," said Foreman, "I would be willing to accept any modest fee, handed down by a jury, of between $4,000,000 and $16.5 million for my services." Added Foreman: "It is quite possible that one of the byproducts of such a trial will be to satisfy the curiosity of the public as to who killed Jacques Mossler...