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...grand jury, depriving the prosecution of testimony to mull over until the witnesses actually got to the stand. Carroll's testimony dovetailed with Judge Joseph Teresi's four-hour instruction to the jury of seven white men, four black women and one white woman. He told them they must acquit a defendant if they believed he reasonably but mistakenly thought he had to use deadly force in response to a threat. After 21 hours of actual deliberation, the jury came down on the side of the police. The Justice Department, which has been monitoring the Diallo case from its inception...
...Seth Fenton '01 as Corcoran delivers a boyish performance as the Captain, Ph.D student Vernon Eagle appears as the foppish and formal Admiral, resembling a more refined Mr. Bean, and Susan Long '02 provides a tongue-in-cheek performance as the bawdy but compassionate Buttercup. All the principal characters acquit themselves well with a good dose of self-awareness and ample humour, but the real star of the show is firstyear Kathleen Stetson. As the unwillingly betrothed Josephine, Stetson is simply luminous. From the melancholic torch songs of "Sorry Her Lot" and "The Hours Creep on Apace" to her puckish...
...King Jr., Kevorkian told the jury that "there are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Honestly now, do you see what [the prosecution] calls a killer? If you do, then you must convict. If you don't think I'm a criminal, then you must acquit." Thirteen hours of deliberation found him guilty of second-degree murder rather than the first-degree charge demanded by Skrzynski, which would have put Kevorkian in line for a mandatory life sentence. Instead, he could get 10 to 25 years on the murder charge and seven years on a related...
...year-old patriotic lady, I have lived long and seen much. When I watched Congress vote to acquit President Clinton, I realized that evil had won over good. My heart is broken. HELEN FLOYD Denver...
Friday was graduation day, full of pomp and circumstance. The Senators voted to acquit the President, and he gave his 82-second commencement address. The daffodils didn't know enough to stay under the mulch, the little white flags fluttered on the South Lawn putting green, aides stood in the sunshine listening to him apologize and reconcile one more time. And of course it was the postscript that sealed the day, after he turned to leave and heard the heavenly question transmitted by Sam Donaldson. "In your heart, sir, can you forgive and forget...