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...results surprised almost all the lawyers - defense attorneys as well as prosecutors - Leipold interviewed for the study. The defense folks said they preferred juries because judges feel too much pressure to convict, are wise to defense tricks, or hear a lot of negative information about the defendant before trial. Prosecutors admitted that they had believed that juries probably gave the accused a better chance at acquittal...
...saying goes, it is better to allow 1,000 criminals to go free than convict one innocent person. But the Israelis have turned that maxim on its head: they seem to think it is better to kill 1,000 blameless civilians than allow one terrorist to go free. The Israelis have suffered in the past, yet that does not give them the right to inflict so much pain and suffering on innocent people. Such cruelty leads nowhere. Giorgos Matskalidis Florina, Greece...
...when it's all over, you often end up with new laws, like the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms, which have made illegal much of the unsavory behavior of the go-go years. New laws aren't retroactive, of course, and what was on the books didn't seem sufficient to convict Quattrone. "I am very pleased that the case will be concluded," he said, emerging from the courthouse last week. "I plan to resume my business career." Northern California's tech investors, many of whom wrote letters of support during Quattrone's two trials, seem poised to embrace...
...Mahdi scout club being taught to hate their fellow man. They are being robbed of their childhood and often their life too, all in the name of religion. Derek J. Waite Toronto As the saying goes, it is better to allow 1,000 criminals to go free than convict one innocent person. But the Israelis have turned that maxim on its head: they seem to think it is better to kill 1,000 blameless civilians than allow one terrorist to go free. The Israelis have suffered in the past, yet that does not give them the right to inflict...
...saying goes, it is better to allow 1,000 criminals to go free than convict one innocent person. But the Israelis have turned that maxim on its head: they seem to think it is better to kill 1,000 blameless civilians than allow one terrorist to go free. The Israelis have suffered in the past, yet that does not give them the right to inflict so much pain and suffering on innocent people. Such cruelty leads nowhere. GIORGOS MATSKALIDIS Florina, Greece...