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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot has all the elements of an old-fashioned detective movie. A police officer is brutally gunned down and a frantic manhunt ensues. A long-haired laborer is convicted of the murder after his companion on the fateful night testifies against him. A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the case and produces a gritty documentary in which the prosecution's witnesses shed doubt on their own testimony. Ideally, there should be a happy cinematic ending, as the wrongly convicted man leaves prison after twelve years to resume his shattered life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Happy Ending | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...public mind. Though her short, unhappy life of six years was spent in a middle-class Manhattan household, it was in circumstances of stunning callousness and squalor. Joel Steinberg, 47, the disbarred attorney who illegally adopted her, spent days at a time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg. And while only Steinberg stood trial for Lisa's death, a shadow of complicity fell upon everyone who did not act to prevent it: Nussbaum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Question of Responsibility: Joel Steinberg | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Baker and a companion are turkey hunting on 1,366 acres of Texas scrubland about 50 miles south of San Antonio, a wild, almost barren part of the U.S. where it is easy to believe that due process is still a bullet. "I call it the Rock Pile Ranch," says Baker, "and that's about all that's on it. Nothing else but some water wells and turkey feeders. Coming here is the closest I get to therapy. I'm not really into material things, but land, well, they're not making any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Joel Steinberg is convicted of manslaughter, but to some a shadow of complicity touches his companion Hedda Nussbaum -- and the child-welfare system itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 7 FEBRUARY 13, 1989 | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...Senate, meanwhile, prepared last night to debate a joint resolution killing the big pay raise, and a companion measure to restrict speaking fees and other honoraria received by its members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House to Compromise on 30% Pay Hike | 2/3/1989 | See Source »

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