Word: conviction
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...records and recommending the hiring of, among other apparently unqualified people, one dead man and one drunk--are just the latest serious charges of wrongdoing leveled at Daley's administration. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (who is also investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity) has helped convict more than 20 city employees of taking bribes in exchange for contracts in the city's Hired Truck program, which doles out transportation work to private companies. When announcing the recent indictments, Fitzgerald, who has also charged that a heroin ring was operating out of a city water-filtration plant...
...Wednesday, three of the jurors who voted to convict Pring-Wilson last year wrote a letter to the Boston Globe condemning Quinlan’s order for a new trial...
...true that there were dark pages in George Wallace's life, as in everyone's past, but to dwell on the darkness instead of his eventual conversion is to convict him without a trial. Mark Quiner Cheyenne, Wyo. Which Portland...
...much imitated grins don't quite match, but they sure go together. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas first paired up in I Walk Alone, the story of a convict who gets out of prison and discovers a changed world. In the 40 years since, they have been in a play, starred in three more features and done two cameos together. Now they are back in Tough Guys, which finished filming last week in California, and the more things change the more they play the same. The toothy twosome portray--you guessed it--jailbirds who get out of the slammer...
...sentence of death and a killer ready to die would seem a perfect partnership. With condemned inmates around the country spending an average of 10 years wading through appeals, both the state and the convict can get impatient. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, almost 12% of all U.S. executions have been of so-called volunteers, murderers who plead guilty and ask for death or, more commonly, waive their appeals. As death houses around the country begin to crowd with volunteers, however, their presence raises questions about whether a justice system can be fair when...