Word: conviction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michael Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest...
Jurors will at a minimum have the option to convict Pring-Wilson of first-degree murder—which would put the him behind bars for life—as well as second-degree murder, under which the defendant would face a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 15 years...
...folks. The chat-show queen reported for jury duty in Chicago, telling reporters she thought she was "too opinionated" to make an attractive juror. Attorneys disagreed and selected Oprah for a murder trial. Serving for $17.20 a day, the media mogul and her fellow jurors voted to convict after deliberating for just over two hours. Now Oprah plans to tape an episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges may want to start preparing now for a healthy turnout of future jury pools. The woman who persuaded mainstream America to embrace both Tolstoy...
...within five minutes, the rest of the jurors convinced her that we had clear evidence (tape-recorded phone calls) to convict the defendant of stalking. “Well,” she said, “I guess he’s guilty.” We looked at each other in amazement. One count down, four...
...determined to stick it out until we reached the right verdict. After a while we cajoled the bailiffs into getting us coffee and cookies, and at some point that afternoon, we agreed that there had been a robbery, but that we didn’t have enough evidence to convict on the two weapons charges (though some of us grumbled at that). Four counts down...