Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, became governor the moment the gavel fell to close the 21-9 vote to convict on the first charge, obstruction. Two-thirds of the 30-member, GOP-controlled Senate was needed for conviction...
There are 19 Republicans and 11 Democrats in the Senate. On the first and decisive charge against Mecham, 10 Republicans and all 11 Democrats voted to convict: nine Republicans voted to acquit...
Well, sometimes. Burt Reynolds is amiable and, for once, animated as Turner's boss, who will hide a convict in a photocopy machine to protect his exclusive. Christopher Reeve brings a nice macho wimpitude to the role of her new beau -- he's Clark Kent with a preening ego. And Turner, her wit percolating through that great womanly laugh, struts in high style. Now if only the movie could match her suave maneuvering. That would be front-page news...
...media event with flowing blood and absurdist overtones. The aging Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chanted om in Lincoln Park. Jean Genet, the French homosexual playwright and ex-convict, wrote titillated prose about how attractive and powerful the cops' thighs were. Abbie Hoffman developed a cordial relationship with the plainclothes policemen assigned to tail him everywhere, but he shook them sometimes and spirited around town in a score of disguises...
About a fourth of all Kennedy's opinions concern matters of criminal procedure, and in those cases he has generally taken a law-and-order line. For example, he upheld the death penalty for a Nevada convict, already jailed for murder, who committed another murder in prison. But Kennedy has shown sensitivity to the plight of individuals, something that critics found lacking in Bork. One case arose after police discovered drugs on an immigrant crossing the Mexican border by subjecting the man to a body-cavity search. "I remember him agonizing over that," says Kozinski. The suspect was clearly guilty...