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...criminal cases, Japan's courts tend to be staunchly severe on rape, gun control and narcotics violations. But the nation's 99% conviction rate in cases brought to trial is not solely due to tough application of the codes. Prosecutors rarely go before the bench unless their case is a strong one. Moreover, the confession rate is very high. Japan's 2,774 judges are often moved to impose lighter sentences by pleas of remorse. Writer Frank Gibney, an expert on Japan, observes, "Be it only a traffic accident, if a person has caused injury to another...
...greater consumer purchasing power." The New York program has already placed 11,000 low-income youngsters in large firms like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Similar private programs are thriving in cities as economically diverse as St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit and Los Angeles. In Tampa, Baseball Stars Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Lou Piniella, as well as other celebrities, have pitched in, appearing in TV commercials to promote summer jobs for teenagers. The Boston summer-jobs program, a coalition of 187 businesses, in conjunction with local schools, teaches "job readiness" skills like how to dress for work and prepare...
Burger did not have to go far afield for an example of the invocations he endorsed. Each session of the high bench opens with a clerk proclaiming: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
DIED. Oren Ritter Lewis, 80, outspoken, activist federal district judge whose Alexandria, Va., courtroom was always good theater and whose opinions were often controversial; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960, he regularly cut short questioning he found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated...
...will probably be months before the grand jury decides whether to indict Battisti, and it is not clear if anyone will review Aldrich's role. For the moment, though, one certain casualty of the scandal is the dignity of Cleveland's federal bench. Says one of its judges: "I wish this were all a bad dream and we could wake up and say it's over...