Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always been ugly," said a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence for murder in a letter to Surgeon Edwin Joy. 'That, added to some psychological problems, made me antisocial. I wanted to socialize, but who wants an ugly guy around?" 'His hope: surgery that would help the convict, 31, improve his self-image and perhaps reform...
Jackson, an ex-convict from Walpole, said the Cambridge Committee wants to use the legislation "to embarrass the Commonwealth" and gain publicity for prisoners' plights, but doesn't expect it to pass. "The only thing we can do is raise consciousness," he said...
...gradually shifted. Appalled by the ignorance expressed in popular opinion, Lippmann feared strict adherence to decisions determined by numerical majority could threaten the welfare and freedom of the nation. The pivotal event for Lippmann was the Chattanooga, Tenn., Scopes trial, where law-abiding officials manipulated a popular consensus to convict a young schoolteacher for instructing his pupils in Darwin's evolutionary theory. He outlined his revised stance in Public Opinion, arguing that chief authority for public decision-making should be left to professional experts privy to classified information. Public Opinion naturally did not go over well, but it earned Lippmann...
...second to be tried of six House members charged with bribery in the Abscam operation. "It was all pretty clear in every one's mind," said Joseph D. McDonald, a member of the jury that took only 4½hours after a five-week trial to convict Jenrette, 44, and a longtime friend, John R. Stowe, of bribery. Added McDonald: "One picture is worth a thousand words." The video and telephone tapes showed Stowe accepting $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent and Jenrette agreeing to back legislation that would enable a fictitious Arab sheik to settle permanently...
...video tape accepting $50,000 from an agent posing as the representative of a fictitious Arab sheik. Myers was heard promising hi return to sponsor special legislation that would enable the sheik to settle in the U.S. The tapes had been used by the Justice Department to convict Myers in August of bribery in the first of its series of ABSCAM prosecutions involving six Congressmen.* Said Myers at the time of his conviction: "The jury was confused. I may be guilty of being an ass, but I have done nothing criminal...