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When it comes to teaching right from wrong, few people are more qualified than convicted Watergate conspirator Jeb Magruder. Now a minister in Columbus, the former Nixon aide, who pleaded guilty to perjury, heads the city's Commission on Ethics and Values, which last week launched a campaign aimed at...
The biggest fear among law-abiding Chicago traders and brokers is that evidence of shady dealings will inspire Washington to clamp down on the freewheeling markets. Already Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, plans to investigate the Chicago exchanges. Congress could decide to beef...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges...
Defense lawyers quickly launched a legal assault against the new system. The result was chaos, with 158 federal judges declaring the arrangement unconstitutional and 116 ruling it to be proper. No one could tell what penalties would be imposed or whether they would stick. Moving briskly to end the confusion...
"This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several...