Word: acquits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least four counts of bribery and three counts of perjury. Finally, Cash and the jury foreman, according to Vegos, disappeared into a bathroom to try to work out a deal: Would Cash go along with a guilty verdict on one count if the other jurors agreed to acquit on all the rest? The jurors rejected that idea...
...thought that John Rideout was probably guilty. But the more they discussed the evidence, the more confused they became. One of them recalled Judge Richard Barber's instructions about "proving beyond a reasonable doubt there was forcible compulsion." Finally, on the fourth vote, the jury agreed unanimously to acquit. Said Juror Pauline Speerstra: "We didn't know whom to trust. There were so many conflicting stories...
...admits that he could not have voted to convict. There was, he insists, reasonable doubt as to the baby's ever having been alive outside the uterus, and the doctor should have been given the benefit of this doubt. Says Nolen: "I would have voted to acquit Edelin, even though I think he was guilty...
...including the National Organization for Women. These groups demanded effective punishment for rapists, but they charged that the death penalty is ineffective because the severity of the punishment supports demands for elaborate and often humiliating testing of the victim's testimony. Even so, the feminists argued, juries sometimes acquit an accused rapist because they feel that the punishment might be too extreme...
MORE THAN for the legal definition of birth which it offers as a precedent, the recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to acquit Kenneth C. Edelin is important for the support it gives to a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for manslaughter following an abortion he performed on October 3, 1973 was the triumph of a prosecutor anxious to limit the right to an abortion in this country. In finding insufficient evidence to prove any "wanton" or "reckless" conduct to a viable human being, the Court has reasserted its faith...