Word: acquitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cured harm is no harm, as when a defendant returns stolen money; they resist penalizing a defendant who corrupts the already corrupted, as in the statutory rape of an unchaste girl. In repeated cases of indecent exposure, a jury tends to convict if the victim is a child, to acquit if the victim is an adult woman...
This year's show does not, however, serve the car as well as it serves the eye -- either in its actual music or its word-music. The performers generally acquit themselves with moderate success, but not much more. Twelfth Nights is an ensemble show; no one or two players can make or break it, for these are no truly starring roles...
...have the facts." After four days of testimony last week, the all-white jury concurred. It took just 95 minutes to acquit three white fellow citizens of the murder of James J. Reeb, a white Unitarian minister from Boston who was clubbed to death in the Alabama city last March after participating in civil rights demonstrations...
...Authority. Many jurists have long been fascinated by the entrapment defense. Most agree that there is a fine balance to be kept on that score. Is the defendant the sort of person who might reasonably have been expected to commit the crime without solicitation? But should not the court acquit the defendant regardless of criminal predisposition? Even if he were not predisposed to it but was seduced into committing the crime, is he not as guilty as if he had thought...
...Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence that it re versed the convictions. "Inasmuch as the spectacle of the nudity of the human body has nothing intrinsic in it that would outrage normal, even delicate decency, and since Claudine Durand concealed her sexual parts with a sufficiently opaque monokini, we acquit her." As things now stand, this summer's French beachwear is likely to be a lot scantier...