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...Last year, after months of public hearings, a Maryland state commission on the death penalty voted 13-9 to recommend that it should be abolished. In its final report the commission, which was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, cited the usual objections to capital punishment - cost, racial and jurisdictional disparities in sentencing, its ineffectiveness as a deterrent against crime and the possibility that innocent people might be put to death. One of the commission's members was Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been on death row in Maryland for two years in the mid-1980s before...
According to Burning Tree's lawyer, former U.S. Attorney Benjamin Civiletti, the club will appeal. Said Burning Tree Member Senator Barry Goldwater: "Frankly, if they admitted women, I'd leave...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...
...name a prosecutor whenever there is "specific information" lodged against any of some 240 top officials, whether or not it meets the legal standard of "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. Attorney General Smith argues that the act is unconstitutional and wants to abolish it; Benjamin Civiletti, Attorney General under Carter, says the law's scope should be reduced...
Prior to joining the Carter administration in June 1978 at the invitation of former attorney general Benjamin R. Civiletti, Heymann, who is 48, served in the State Department under former president Lyndon B. Johnson. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1969, and later aided Archibald Cox '34 when he served as special prosecutor investigating Watergate