Word: commitally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. asked that expert testimony on the alcoholism issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...
Wade Roush, executive news editor at theIndependent denied that the article was racist,saying it suggested only that the tension betweenRazo's life at home and his existence at Harvardcreated a psychological imbalance that might haveprompted him to commit the crimes...
Psychologists have long known that brutal treatment can breed brutal behavior. Child abuse is one of the most common precursors of juvenile delinquency. Severe beatings can cause central nervous system dysfunction that may lead to violent behavior. Attorney Mones says well over 90% of children who commit parricide have suffered physical, sexual and mental abuse. Unlike thousands of other severely abused children, they are finally tipped into violent retaliation by extreme distress or the opening of an opportunity. After testing, most are found to be suicidal; indeed, many attempt suicide within six months of the murder...
...nobody would commit suicide, only...
...have his legend buffed with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And all week he was happily promoting Chuck Berry: The Autobiography (Harmony Books; $17.95), an unghosted, unfettered reminiscence about Berry's family, his music and, for seekers of the salacious, the "naughty-naughties I would commit from time to time...