Word: commitement
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...What we tried to do [in the meeting] was to give some understanding as to why people commit suicide," Catlin said. "Suicide is really devastating to people who might feel like they are to blame. Even knowing that they aren't doesn't make them feel less guilty. There are times people are convinced they want to kill themselves and won't give any indication that they...
Still, it is hard to imagine what good reason the government might have to frame a young woman with no national reputation as an activist, and whether or not she was entrapped into it, no public figure has yet suggested that she did not undertake to commit a horrible crime. In jail or free, her wounds, reopened, will be slow to heal...
...centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that the jury will not be as careful in sifting the evidence if they know that the accused...
...fact when, a few chapters into the new novel, Richie is found deservedly dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...
There is more. Not only did Jacobs not commit the murder, but a Texas court found his sister guilty of that same crime only seven months after the original conviction. Jacobs' conviction was his own doing. Preferring the prospect of death to life in prison, he confessed to a murder that he did not commit. Later, it became apparent that his sister, Bobbie Hogan, had killed Urdiales...