Word: convicted
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Unless Lorena strikes a plea bargain, prosecutors, who relied on her testimony in trying John, will have to cast him as a star witness to try to convict Lorena. Ironically, pros ecutor Paul Ebert's failure to convict John will make this easier, since it weakens her claim that her act was justified. Dur ing his closing argument last week, Ebert signaled that he could parcel out his disdain with an even hand: "You might say perhaps that these two people deserve each other...
...misconception that forensic genetics is only used to restrict freedom and convict people," says Bieber, who says that courses on this increasingly important field are rare. "Its use often results in exoneration of those falsely accused or incarcerated...
Through some adroit lawyering, Faal turned that mistake to a decisive advantage. Ordinarily, juries that fail to find a defendant guilty on a serious charge have the option of convicting on a lesser one not specified in the original indictment. At the conclusion of trial testimony, Faal took a crucial gamble. Exercising a right of defense, he moved successfully to have Judge John Ouderkirk instruct jurors that if they failed to convict Williams of premeditated attempted murder, they could not consider a lesser charge. That left jurors no choice between attempted murder and acquittal on that most serious count...
...California biotech firm, when he developed a technique called PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in the 1970s. PCR enables chemists to take a bit of DNA from a cell and make limitless copies of the molecule. PCR-amplified DNA has been used to provide material for gene-therapy experiments, to convict rapists and, yes, even to make copies of DNA fragments from ancient fossils -- a concept taken to its logical conclusion in the movie Jurassic Park...
...would go so much further. She had become more radicalized in the spring of 1970 when Nixon sent troops into Cambodia and four Kent State student protesters were killed by the National Guard. Power had also fallen under the spell of Stanley Bond, an ex-convict who had enrolled in an inmate- education program at Brandeis. Three hours after meeting him, Onorato says, "I went to the dean of faculty to object because within a half-hour's conversation with him I thought this boy was borderline psychotic." But to Power he was a romantic revolutionary who could help...