Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once identified and apprehended, a career criminal will find his case assigned to a district attorney for start-to-finish prosecution. With a light case load (one-third that of other prosecutors), the D.A. usually seeks high bail, or no bail, to keep the suspect in jail, refuses to plea bargain, and pushes for an early trial...
Despite discouragement of plea bargaining, conviction rates are startlingly high: 94% nationally, compared with a regular conviction rate of 73%. That rate naturally troubles defense attorneys. Some of them are critical of the program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others claim that their clients are stigmatized by the career-criminal category, even though the trial jury never learns the defendant has been specially labeled. The career-criminal program has reduced the gap between arrest and trial to about 60 days in some cities, a marked improvement. Remarks Boston Prosecutor Lloyd...
...partially responsible for the slight reduction in big-city crime last year. Detroit reports a decline in major crime for the first six months of 1977: murder down 27%, burglary and armed robbery each down about 25%. New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, who started the first LEAA-financed career-criminal program in 1975, cites a Rand Corp. estimate that a career criminal commits 20 offenses a year. If that is true, the 992 career-criminal convictions obtained thus far in New Orleans could prevent about 198,000 crimes over the next ten years...
...musicality of Shaw's language pervades the evening. His mother had a fine mezzo-soprano voice, and at the beginning of his journalistic career, he was a music critic signing himself Corno di Bassetto, which means basset horn. The cadences of his speeches are like arias, and Donnelly delivers them that way with an ingratiating Dublin inflection. Indeed, most of Shaw's greater plays could be transposed into operas, just as Pygmalion was made into My Fair Lady...
...resonance to the lingo of '40s movies, and in the many vintage U.S.O. routines that dot the film's narrative. Underneath the surface wit is Innaurato's portrait of Verna's aching loneliness and cultural malaise. When Verna, for the sake of her nonexistent career, jilts an Army captain whom she loves, she ceases to be a colorful eccentric and becomes a tragic victim of her bankrupt, fan-magazine values. By the time the film reaches its ironic denouement, Innaurato's nostalgic affection for Verna's old-fashioned innocence has turned into pity...