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Despite concerns that such an exercise would devolve into a witch hunt, he contends it may acquit rather than implicate the clergy as a whole. Given the coercive pressure that priests were under, he says, a 10% cooperation rate is surprisingly low. The Polish church, he says, may go down as "a church of martyrs - not informers." The worst part is not knowing which...
...result is often acquittal. Another possibility is that judges so resented the federal sentencing guidelines, which replaced judicial discretion with strict and frequently harsh rules, that they demanded stronger proof of guilt when the prescribed sentence seemed unfair. Leipold leans to this explanation because judges started to acquit even more often at about the time the guidelines went into effect...
...said. Harris acknowledged that even if Moses, Aaron, and God could all be considered terrorists, that didn’t clear Pharaoh of guilt. “If we asked Pharaoh to put on the glove, would it fit? If it would fit, then we would not acquit,” Harris said. Ultimately, Steinberg said that were it not for Pharaoh’s crimes, none of us would be here today. “We must let history render the judgment,” Steinberg said. After the trial, Dershowitz quipped, “I spent months preparing...
Songs like “The Painter” and “The Old Guitar” acquit Young of any charges of inanity. The former is a marvelous evocation of artistic suffering: the lyric “She saw the pictures and she painted them / She picked the colors from the air” suggests the near-magical power artists have to conjure images and emotions...
...We’re very optimistic,” Sultan said. “We believe that a jury hearing all the relevant facts is going to acquit [Pring-Wilson...