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...reversal of any conviction on the basis of recanted testimony alone is rare; there has never been one in Illinois. In Massachusetts three months ago, a judge overturned the 1974 first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed...
Distraught over the breakup of her marriage to political activist Tom Hayden, Fonda found that the courtship of the man who would become her third husband was unexpected and unpredictable...
...with what many people already know, and her passion could reasonably be mistaken for penitence. The rap on Fonda has always been that she twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with--avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical film as a 60th-birthday present for herself, that she realized...
STANLEY BIRCH, a conservative judge in Atlanta's federal appeals court, rebuking the President and Congress for behaving like "activist judges" in intervening in the Terri Schiavo case
...with what many people already know, and her passion could reasonably be mistaken for penitence. The rap on Fonda has always been that she twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with-avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical film as a 60th-birthday present for herself, that she realized...