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...jury about the perils of entrapment by the Government. A paid FBI informer had been extremely active in the 1971 raid, supplying tools, strategy and training. Though the Supreme Court recently took a more tolerant view of government agent activity, the judge told the jury that it could acquit if it found "overreaching Government participation" that was "offensive to the basic standards of decency and shocking to the universal sense of justice." The jury deliberated over four days and finally returned not-guilty ver dicts on all counts. Though only 17 of the 28 stood trial, the Government said...
...will never broaden the Commission's powers so that it would upset the Faculty's hierarchical ascendancy. That is too bad, because a strong Commission on Inquiry might ease the problems of student discipline at Harvard. Paul has made the point that the CRR's decision last Spring to acquit the Mass Hall occupiers proves that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities can be interpreted to include the context of political actions. A strong Commission on Inquiry would complement this interpretation by giving students a review of administrative decision-making which could have considerable impact. This Faculty...
...found yet another loophole in the much-criticized Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities and used it to all but acquit Ellen J. Messing '72-4 of the charges brought against her by the Administration last Spring...
...bitterness leads her into overstatement. She acknowledges that the U.S. is probably the only country that would have brought a Lieut. Calley to trial. But then she baldly states that with Calley's sentence reduced and everyone else involved in the massacre and the ensuing cover-up either acquitted or not even brought to trial, "mass-murders have been welcomed back into the population." She adds: "Now any member of the armed forces in Indochina can, if he so desires, slaughter a reasonable number of babies, confident that the public will acquit him, a) because they support...
...arguments to be made against capital punishment that your Essay fails to mention. First, any prospective execution creates a sensationalism that makes manifest a morbid fascination with homicide. Second, execution has irreversible consequences that imprisonment does not have. This irreversible nature of the death sentence can influence juries to acquit defendants whom they actually believe to be guilty. Third, what does the rapist have to lose by killing his victim? Nothing, if the punishment for both crimes is death...