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Over many months, the American retributive gland has grown more and more inflamed. A few weeks ago, Robert Jones, 36, stood before the bench in a Chicago courtroom, having just been sentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison for murdering two brothers in a robbery. A voice boomed: "I hope you die in prison!" It was not one of the victims' family or the prosecutor who cried out; it was the judge...
...Robin Hood Judge," the mostly approving state press called him. But the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission charged Taunton, 39, with "conduct unbecoming a member of the judiciary" and a year ago sought to have him removed from the bench. The judge's compassion verged on bias, agreed the Florida Supreme Court last March, but it let Taunton off with a reprimand, calling his motives "wholesome and unselfish." Taunton is not a lawyer. A former high school principal and Methodist lay minister, he defends his leniency to the poor by quoting the Bible...
This week the people of Gulf County have a chance to decide for themselves whether David Taunton should stay on the bench. He is running for re-election against Robert Moore, a lawyer who filed a slander suit against Taunton on behalf of one of the men the judge charged with suspect land dealings. Moore has been drumming up support from local merchants who would like to see Taunton ousted. He has also invested $150 in a red-white-and-blue floodlighted billboard on the main highway to Tallahassee. The Robin Hood Judge, meanwhile, was hand-painting campaign posters with...
There is only one scene--two old Jewish men on bench in a park--and no breaks. The piece just winds up and up and up with rolling variations on melodic conversation--the kind of talk you know immigrant grandfathers share in their...
GARY BOSNIC, senior placekicker. After watching from the bench for much of his sophomore year, Bosnic came on last year to pop for three of five field goal attempts last season and 12-14 PATs. He'll have to kick with the finesse of the Rockettes and the brute strength of Vasily Alexeyev if he's to keep Harvard in some ballgames towards the early part of the schedule...