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With her hip-hugger jeans and Indian jewelry, Priscilla has never been a favorite of Forth Worth society-one executive described her as "a lady who looked like she had spent too much time in bowling alleys"-and Haynes has concentrated less on an alibi for Davis than on his wife's reputation. Last week he put on the stand William Rufner, a convicted felon and former lover of Priscilla's, hoping to depict him as a possible suspect. Priscilla stands to gain millions by her husband's conviction, Haynes argued, while Gavrel, the other key witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Murder in Texas | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...allegations arose last Thursday when a drunken man presented himself to the Somerville police as the mayor's lover. The man later admitted there was no basis to his charge, and Ralph proved his alibi with a polygraph test...

Author: By George G. Scholomite, | Title: Ralph Calls 'Immoral' Rumor Slanderous, Damaging Lie | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

...still below the poverty line, defined as $5,500 for an urban family of four (only 8.9% of white families are below the line). Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "The awareness that many blacks have been successful means that the underclass is more resentful and more defiant because its alibi isn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

After re-examining the key witnesses, the convicts1 lawyers produced a white minister from New Jersey who swore that Chavis had an alibi. The Rev. Eugene Templeton, a former pastor in Wilmington, and his wife Donna both testified that they were elsewhere with Chavis at the time he was allegedly fire-bombing the grocery. The couple left the area a short time later and did not testify at the original trial because, they claimed, they feared arrest or injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Who Bombed Mike's Grocery? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...been found in a ghetto alley brutally beaten and stabbed to death. The cops were certain they had their man: the hooker was last seen leaving a nearby tavern with Lang, a Chicago dock worker, and a speedy investigation turned up bloodstained clothing in his apartment. Lang's alibi? He had none. But then he could not talk. Nor could he hear, read, write or use sign language. Lang was a deaf-mute who communicated solely by gestures and rough drawings. Because of this severe disability, he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and placed in a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Unlocking a Prisoner of Silence | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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