Word: convicted
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Such grants of immunity raise embarrassing moral questions, since they permit a wrongdoer to escape punishment by the simple expedient of informing on his associates. Yet legal authorities have traditionally accepted the pragmatic necessity of letting one possible criminal go free in order to catch and convict others, and the idea was formally put into law by the British Parliament in 1710. In the U.S., immunity was often granted unofficially or by various local laws, and the Supreme Court in 1896 gave its first complete approval to a federal immunity statute. The underlying legal theory is that when a witness...
...House committee approves, then the full House, calling itself "the grand inquest of the nation," decides by a simple majority whether to impeach, the equivalent of an indictment. If it does, the Senate becomes "the high court of impeachment," and conducts the trial; it can convict by a two-thirds majority of those present. Andrew Johnson, the lone President to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote (35-19) after he attempted to fire his popular Secretary of War in defiance of a new law that forbade...
...donations. Another PIC ad, for Prison Media Project, a group seeking better job training for inmates, shows a convict at work under the headline: I MAKE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR 350 A DAY. PIC has also created promotions for the Lawyers Guild, which wants to reform grand juries, and Project Jonah, an organization that is trying to stop whale hunting...
...violation at Minnesota state prison at Stillwater, Richard C. Jackson had never been considered an artist. But in 2% years, the 53-year-old printer developed a keen aesthetic eye as well as an appreciation for shading, contrast and tone. Working laboriously in the prison's printing shop, convict Jackson came up with an amazingly good portrait of Andrew Jackson, a nice rear view of the White House and passable reproductions of the filigree found on a U.S. $20 bill. When his sentence expired in March, he loaded up a cardboard box with $16,000 in phony 20s, asked...
Sabin considers his findings proof that the viruses help to cause cancer in "certain individuals under special conditions." But many researchers believe that more evidence is essential before they can indict - let alone convict - herpes. Although women who have had genital, or Type II herpes, infections do seem more susceptible to cervical cancer than those who have not, the fact remains that most women with Type II infections do not develop cervical cancer. There is even less evidence to implicate herpes Type I. A large percent age of people at some time in their lives develop the cold sores that...