Word: chapman
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...received the word from God, he said, and even repeated arguments from his defense lawyers could not dissuade him. So Mark David Chapman, 26, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom last week to the Dec. 8 murder of John Lennon. When Assistant District Attorney Allen Sullivan asked the defendant why he had used especially destructive hollow-point bullets in the shooting, Chapman laconically replied, "To ensure Lennon's death...
...Kelly Chapman, an armed robber, and Richard Jaworski, who was serving out a narcotics conviction, were forced to share a 10½-ft. by 6½-ft. cell at Ohio's maximum-security prison in Lucasville. Citing the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments," the bunkmates filed a class-action lawsuit that sought a "one man, one cell" policy. A federal judge granted their request and was upheld on appeal. Last week, in a decision of major significance for the nation's overcrowded prisons, the Supreme Court ruled, 8 to 1, that "double celling...
...Directed by Edward Bianchi Screenplay by Priscilla Chapman and John Hartwell Psychopath stalks celebrated actress, bloodily maims or kills people he thinks are keeping her from him, finally, frighteningly, corners her in deserted theater, with sex and/or murder in mind...
...basic legal question in all this litigation is something that the Supreme Court is about to answer. It will rule on a suit, Rhodes vs. Chapman, filed in 1975 by Kelly Chapman, an armed robber held at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He contended that the one-man cell he shared with another prisoner gave him only 32 sq. ft. of personal space...
Actually, Faculty members teaching in the Core during its first year last spring expressed confusion about the stringent Core guidelines, and doubts about how effective the guidelines were in producing the ideal Core courses. Robert C. Chapman, professor of English Literature, who teaches Literature and Arts A-11. "Theatre and Drama," called the goals of the new curriculum "high falutin'," adding he hoped his course was "within the limits of what the Core people wanted...