Word: cased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...ruling, New York Judge Gerald Sheindlin questioned the reliability of certain procedures employed by Lifecodes Corp., one of the nation's leading DNA-testing firms. Sheindlin agreed that DNA techniques "are generally accepted in the scientific community and can produce reliable results." But he ruled that in the murder case of Bronx janitor Joseph Castro, Lifecodes "failed in several major respects to use the generally accepted scientific techniques and experiments for obtaining reliable results...
Specifically, the decision means that the tainted tests may not be introduced to show that a bloodstain found on Castro's watch came from the victim, though other acceptable DNA tests by Lifecodes may be used to show that the blood does not belong to Castro. Beyond this immediate case, the ruling is expected to embolden many of the hundreds of defendants fingered by DNA tests around the country to challenge the procedures used to identify them...
...Western irresolution. The memories of the war ran deep, and nobody was eager for more bloodshed. Both Britain and France were concerned with their own serious economic troubles. But particularly in Britain, there was a widespread view that Versailles had indeed been unfair, that the Germans had a strong case. George Bernard Shaw, for example, spoke of Hitler's "triumphant rescue of his country from the yoke the Allies imposed...
...this point, even with fighting under way all along the Polish frontier, it was still conceivable that Hitler might once again achieve his goal without a major war. Italy's Benito Mussolini, who had promised to join Hitler's side in case of war, telephoned Berlin to say that he wished to remain neutral; Mussolini had been telling the British and French all that week that if they , would agree to a new four-power conference (much like the one at Munich that had carved up Czechoslovakia the previous year), he might be able to arrange some kind of compromise...