Word: acquitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Angels to keep people in line"; though a member of the Dead says, "Beating on musicians? Doesn't seem right"; though the Stones and their entourage hired the Angels as guards because they were cheap and because they added a little genuine street-fighting class, no tribunal will acquit the Angels on the grounds that they were just following orders (the man charged with Hunter's death was acquitted, but for other reasons...
...held huge crowds up to 36 hours without the "prisoners" being able to reach a lawyer. With all the impersonal malice of the law, the individuals inside such camps lose many of the normal rights of the accused because the courts cannot adequately process such large numbers-or quickly acquit the innocent. The natural by-product of these mass arrests is the temporary repeal of the Bill of Rights...
...Justice Frederick M. Marshall saw no merit in the grand jury's charges. After listening to four days' testimony, including the sheriff's statement that campus officials had tried to calm the crowd, the judge found insufficient evidence to convict Hobart and directed the jury to acquit the college. A professor and seven students will be tried later on charges ranging from drug possession to riot. Tongyai, now a police-science student at a nearby junior college, faces another problem. He has been charged with collecting $700 in state unemployment benefits while on the sheriff...