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...DIED. ROBERT KIRSCHNER, 61, forensic pathologist who collected evidence from alleged massacre sites in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to help convict perpetrators of genocide; in Chicago. Kirschner's work took him on dozens of missions on behalf of human-rights organizations and U.N. tribunals. Despite the grisly nature of his occupation, which involved sifting through human remains, he once said he was more disturbed by "trying to contemplate what goes through someone's mind that allows them to do this kind of thing...
...board specially trained in issues surrounding sexual assault” is a sure formula for depriving accused students of any semblance of fairness or rational fact-finding procedures. Such narrowly-focused boards at other universities tend to see their duty more in terms of needing to convict the accused in order to promote the “healing” of purported victims, than in terms of searching for the truth. In the real world, such specialized boards have been woeful failures because they perceive themselves more as social service agencies than as engines of justice, and civil libertarians have...
...brother Alex, 13, and that the two then set fire to their house. In the other trial, prosecutors claimed that former family friend Ricky Chavis killed King, allegedly to protect his sexual relationship with Alex. Trial watchers wondering what would happen if Chavis and the boys were convicted of the same crime never got to find out. The brothers were found guilty of second-degree murder and arson, and Chavis--to the amazement of the boys' jury--was acquitted. "I was so shocked," forewoman Lynne Schwarz told the Pensacola News Journal. She voted to let the boys off with second...
...Paul Castellano in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1985, Gotti assumed control of the Gambino family. He reigned as boss from 1986-1992, and during those years he became the city’s most notorious media-darling, mainly because federal prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses or, in a 1986-87 case, by paying off a juror—Gotti gained a reputation as the city’s “Teflon Don,” for it was said that...
...delicate dance of challenge and accommodation. "He cannot change it," says Malik Hamid Afridi, a former prosecutor in Kohat. "There is no force other than God. There is no change to the Koran. There are no amendments." But near the Kohat court, a prosecutor who reluctantly helped to convict Zafran Bibi disagrees. "Of course women suffer more because of our customs, because there is no freedom for women," he says. "Actually, it is not the fault of the judge. It is the fault of the law. The law should be amended...