Word: afterthought
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...potentially dangerous defendants had long practiced a de facto brand of preventive detention: setting bail so high that it could not be met. But the act legitimized what had until then been an unacknowledged purpose of many bail procedures. "This sends a dangerous message that the trial is an afterthought," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. New York Defense Lawyer Alan Silber was reminded of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "To paraphrase the Queen of Hearts, 'First the sentence, then the trial...
Thanks, I said, adding as an afterthought...
...imagine you'll be like Seidman," Bok said to The Crimson's 1986 Halloween expedition to his house, adding with ghostly afterthought, "And run against the establishment...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...post-war period, policy making was left to the President, and Congress was involved only as an "afterthought," Miller says. This system went "unquestioned when it appeared things were successful" but was reexamined in light of the Vietnam experience, he says...