Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judy Haney sits on death row in Wetumpka, Alabama, convicted in 1988 of murdering her husband, who she says routinely beat her and her children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...
...service dispatcher Chris Lampropoulos from Queens, New York, was charged with felonious assault on a taxi driver after a car accident. Lampropoulos, 24, claimed that he beat the guy up in self-defense, and that he used his fists -- not a metal pipe, as charged. His family got in touch with Harvey A. Kaminsky, a seasoned trial lawyer in White Plains, New York, and even though Kaminsky agreed to lower his fees, they had to scrape together family loans to pay off the $15,000 it cost to bring the case to trial. For Lampropoulos, the lawyer employed...
Although he has been listed as 7 ft. ever since his days at the University of Houston, Olajuwon is really no taller than 6 ft. 10 in. -- an inch below the 16-year-old Shaq; 2 in. below the New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing, whom he beat in last year's N.B.A. Finals; and 3 in. below the San Antonio Spurs' David Robinson, the 1994-95 N.B.A. mvp, whom he beat like a drum in this year's Western Conference finals...
Still, the Crimson never was quite as good as it though it could be. In three tries, Harvard couldn't beat Brown, its companions in the Ivy's fourth place...
Harvard would face Dartmouth and Columbia again in the Harvard Invitational and the Ivy League Tournament, respectively. And in these matches, the Crimson beat the holy you know what out of its opponents, winning each in three games...