Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agents, one of whom admitted destroying or altering some of his notes on the case, and the outcome was not surprising. De Lorean was also helped by his clean record. Most jurors concluded that the automaker had been lured by Hoffman into a crime he was not predisposed to commit-the legal definition, loosely, of entrapment. In many drug cases the defendants have long criminal histories, making any claims that they were gulled ring hollow...
...District Court Judge Robert Takasugi had carefully spelled out the law on this point to the jury. Said he in his instructions: "If you find John De Lorean committed the acts charged, but did so as a result of entrapment, you must find him not guilty." Entrapment results if the idea for the crime comes from Government agents or informants, if the defendant is induced to participate, and if the defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime. According to Clarence Berman, 56, a retired environmental health inspector for Los Angeles County, some of his fellow jurors thought De Lorean...
...will push for legislation for tighter control of such operations in the future; he proposes that in some types of undercover stings the Government should be required to get a judge's authorization, as is now the case for wiretaps. "The Government sending secret agents in to commit crimes is a kind of dirty business," said Edwards...
...died after being exposed to arsenic gas in a laboratory of the MA Conn plant he worked at on Route 128 outside of Boston. Company officials claim that Zemotel purposely exposed himself to the gas, though Zemotel's family and friends vigorously deny that Zemotel had any cause to commit suicide...
...Likud has had more success than Labor in patching together a coalition from the small religious and splinter parties that will now control 35 seats in the Knesset. But as Herzog consulted with many of these 13 groups, it became clear that some former Likud supporters were reluctant to commit themselves to a new Shamir government. Among the notable holdouts was the National Religious Party. Former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who leads Yahad, a new party with three seats, is thought to be leaning toward Labor. He told a television audience that "what has happened in the past seven years...