Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
...bill will call for a special tribunal to handle both sentencing and parole of convicted criminals. It would take sentencing power away from the judges and vest it in a new "Adult Authority" which would have complete control over the convict until his return to society...
...proposed in the bill, the Adult Authority would comprise a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist, a cultural anthropologist, an educator, a criminologist, and a lawyer or judge. It would determine correctional procedure and psychological and social treatment appropriate to each convict. In addition it would fix the length of sentence...
Last month her husband, Dr. Richard Sheppard, ailing with pleurisy, went to the hospital. Just before Christmas, Sam was convicted of murder. One day last week Ethel Niles Sheppard, white-haired and handsome at 64, locked herself in her bedroom and fired a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver into her brain. She left a note to her son Stephen, with whom she was staying: "I can't manage without Dad. Thanks for everything.−Mother." By court order Sam Sheppard was granted the privilege−unusual for a convict−of attending his mother's funeral...
Wrong Combination. In Syracuse, N.Y., ex-Convict Russell Bryant, 51, was unable to force a railroad-office strongbox, spent $31 in taxicab fares hauling it around to friends who also failed to open it, in disgust tossed it into the Seneca River, learned to his dismay after being arrested and sentenced to 20 years that it contained $13 in postage stamps and 44 pencils...