Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical protection than any other murder suspect in recent history (his trial was shifted from Chicago for fear of adverse publicity), is represented by Public Defender Gerald Getty, 53, none of whose 80 odd murder defendants has ever received a death sentence. The accused, sometime merchant seaman and ex-convict, seemed to have been crossed up only by the one event of July 13 that the killer had overlooked. By rolling under a bunk while the murderer led her roommates to the slaughter, Miss Amurao had escaped his attention while watching his movements...
...shadow of death for ten years. I don't know but what the punishment that he has suffered has been worse than death itself. Based upon the record as the Supreme Court analyzed it and as I heard the evidence, it would be impossible ever to convict the defendant...
...issue was the secret informer, whose tips often supply police with their sole "probable cause" for arrest. As long as police have such cause for arrest, they can search a suspect for the evidence that may convict him. But two Chicago policemen were sharply challenged in court in 1964 after they arrested one George McCray on a Chicago street corner, searched him and found heroin. At a pretrial hearing, the cops testified that they had been tipped off by a reliable informer, whom they refused to identify. McCray's lawyers demanded the informer's name...
...medical expenses. Most got nothing at all, and the rest averaged less than $15 per month, which is a permissible amount under N.C.A.A. rules but not under the Big Ten's. Ironically, meticulous records were kept of all disbursements, so that Elliott, Combes and Braun helped convict themselves. And it was Illinois' own president, David Henry, who presented the Big Ten with the evidence, fully expecting that the university then would be permitted to discipline itself by putting the coaches on probation and suspending the athletes involved...
...Trophy is a status game made to order for "any former convict, opera singer, socialite, movie star, headhunter, football hero, or participant in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, who has been dramatically converted. You will be able to spend the rest of your life singing, touring and 'giving your testimony' at Christian banquets and youth rallies. You will be interviewed by Sunday School people and, perhaps, have a movie made of your life...