Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorneys, Mary Welcome, summed up the defense in an emotional diatribe that compared the defendant to a different "dreamer," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The state, Welcome said, had succeeded only in tarnishing the young man's reputation. She pleaded: "In this nation, you do not convict a person of murder or anything else by soiling him." In a final flourish, she placed a tiny thimble on the jury box rail. Said she disparagingly of the prosecution's presentation: "I leave this with you-a thimbleful of evidence, which is not enough for conviction...
...pick out," says Gary Howell, 34, director of the Kansas City regional crime lab. The probability that any two people will share the same assortment of these blood variables is .1% or less. Because of that, Howell was recently able to use two tiny bloodstains to help convict a double murderer...
Troy said the alleged assaults did not take place at the same time and trying them together might mislead the jury into thinking the incidents were related and if they thought Hussain guilty of one but not guilty of the other they still might vote to convict on both...
...Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness...
Joseph J. Balhro. Lefkowitz's attorney, called the verdicts an "obvious, blatant, and patent inconsistency." "Noting the related convictions, he added. "If that's not acting in consort. I don't know what is." In effect. Balhro and the other defense attormes are basing their appeal on the jury's decision not to convict the three doctors of as serious a crime as they could have...