Word: circuitous
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...Middle Ages. What's next, the Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts of assisting suicide. Circuit Judge David Breck entered an innocent plea on his behalf. Kevorkian has been the symbol for the "right-to-die" movement, but Gibbs points out that many are troubled by the 67-year old former pathologist. Says Gibbs: "Even people who are sympathetic to the issue have problems with Kevorkian because...
Before the jury filed in just prior to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Circuit Judge William Howard admonished the spectators and participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...weeks ago, when the double-murder trial began, there was no dispute as to what happened that night at the lake. But the jury was given two very different portrayals of Smith. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, 32, painted Smith as a calculating, cold-hearted woman who drowned her children to win the affections of Tom Findlay, the son of the owner of the textile plant where she worked as a secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country...
What about American pride? "The only downside is the sentimental loss," says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of New York-based Television Digest. "But this is a worldwide market. People don't know where their TV sets come from. Their picture tube may come from the U.S., the circuit board may be from Malaysia, the transistors may come from Japan, and the set may have been assembled in Mexico. Consumers won't notice much difference from this deal." They're probably too spaced out by that Zenith invention, the remote control...
...possible mistrial in theSusan Smithmurder trial was thrown out by Circuit Judge William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...