Word: convicted
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David Travis demonstrates amazing range as Todd, the ex-convict barber who seeks revenge on the men who destroyed his life. Travis manages to show Todd's intensity without letting the character slip into melodrama. Travis portrays Todd's inhumanely violent nature yet also his sincere despair over the loss of his wife and daughter. Travis' many musical numbers show off his terrific voice and his acting at its best. Like most of the cast he seems underdirected in straight dialogue scenes--particularly in the first...
...between ethnic stereotypes in long-term news coverage and the behavior of white men, oblivious to daylight or cameras or crows, in hot pursuit of innocent Black. The media also have some responsibility, it seems to me, for fostering attitudes that leave Whites all too ready to arrest and convict Black men accused of vicious crimes...
...hung jury last month, but independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH was on the case, immediately requesting a retrial; one was set for Oct. 19. Now it seems Walsh is having second thoughts about that decision. Reportedly shocked over his failure to get a majority of the jury to convict on even one of the nine counts George is charged with, Walsh is consulting top legal eagles on whether to proceed. He's already feeling the heat from George supporters attacking the idea of another wasteful million-dollar trial. Besides, a second unsuccessful trial could undercut his last major effort, the trial...
...state prosecutors: convincing a jury that the police used excessive force. "The issue is ultimately the same," says Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of Southern California Law Center. "Was it reasonable or excessive force? If the jury finds that by community standards it was excessive force, it will convict. If the case can be made that it was reasonable force in that situation, then they will acquit...
...hurdle they did not have in the first trial: they must prove that the defendants specifically intended to deprive King of his civil rights. The Reconstruction-era statutes under which the officers have been charged were used during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to help federal authorities convict police miscreants who could not be found guilty in Southern courts. The statutes had earlier been challenged for being too vague, which prompted the Supreme Court to sharpen their focus by requiring prosecutors to demonstrate a "specific intent" to deprive someone of a federally guaranteed right...