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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...
Hussain Letkowitz, and three counts of rape. Conviction of kidnapping would have meant the jury believed the doctors forced DiPietro into the car and took her to Rockport against her will. The critical charge in the controversy that followed the verdictwas aggravated rape. Aggravated rape entails the use of excessive violence or cooperative action. The judge instructed the jury that in order to convict for aggravated rape, they would also have to find the men guilty of kidnapping and each others rapes...
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...
...trade of metaphysics; the law's only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary merit? What if a literary convict is really a terrible writer? String him up? Will we need a panel of literary judges to meet the first Monday of every month at Elaine's in Manhattan to hear its cases? If the perpetrator of the Texas chain-saw massacre shows a certain flair for the short story...