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...which carries a prison term of 8 1/3 to 25 years. Though the jurors emerged from eight days of deliberation with plans for a reunion, they reached their compromise verdict only after some heated quarrels. Most of them entered the jury room believing Steinberg was guilty. Some wanted to convict him on the more serious charge of second-degree murder. But four holdouts were convinced that it was Nussbaum who caused the brain injuries that killed Lisa, a claim raised by Steinberg's attorneys late in the 13-week trial, after several earlier defense strategies fizzled...
...more practical level, the Nunn plan seems to defeat its own purposes. Though it aims to give value to community work, it will in reality make community work less dignified. As lower income students are coerced into community service, they will perform with a detrimental resentment, much like the convict who receives a term of 90 hours of community work as penalty...
...reality is that [the Bush campaign] are sleazebags--they have a candidate with no moral center, who has allowed himself to be manipulated by people who don't care," says Goldman. "Dukakis' weakness is that he thinks education on the issues moves voters. In fact, Willie Horton [a Massachusetts convict who committed rape and murder while on furlough] moves voters...
...major parties also have 25 other alternatives, ranging from Communists to colonists. Some want to annex the West Bank; others propose an independent Palestinian state. The leader of a religious party called SHAS promises God's blessing in return for a vote, while another candidate is a former convict jailed for tossing a hand grenade into the Knesset in 1957 and wounding David Ben-Gurion. The Yemenites' Union and the Politeness Party reflect rather specialized interests...
...Bush demonstrator wore a striped prison suit and a sign proclaiming, "Willie Horton"--a reference to a convict who committed a murder while on a Massachusetts furlough plan under the Dukakis administration...