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...principle of violence for self-defense. "The Negro in the South cannot expect justice in the courts," he had said in a public statement after a white man had been acquitted of the charge of raping a Monroe Negro woman despite the testimony of first-hand witnesses. "He must convict his attackers on the spot. He must meet violence with violence, lynching with lynching." Monroe Negroes were prepared to shoot it out an the picket line, if the town's white people attacked them...
Bunker said that he had documentation for all these conclusions. Admitting that such documentation might not be enough to convict anyone in court, Bunker added that "the evidence would satisfy any individual...
After 53 years of following all the rules, Bank President Harris Filmore made a slip and was sentenced to ten years for fraud. It cost him his wife, his twelve-room house in Westchester and the approval of his peers. He is sent to grim Audton prison, where, as Convict 3355, Filmore is closeted with assorted thieves, rapists and murderers...
...outbreaks confused public health authorities, and laboratory workers had the tedious job of identifying submicroscopic viruses in the laboratory to decide which of them were responsible for a particular patient's illness. The Asian A-2 strain of influenza virus has been identified in enough cases to convict it as the chief culprit in North Carolina's heavy outbreak of flu in January. The virus apparently spread to adjacent Virginia and South Carolina, and the University of Georgia had a local incident. Farther west, there were confirmed outbreaks at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois...
...American system there can be independent judgments by the jurors. This indicates that under provisions of the Constitution . . . only the jury system stands between the defendant and the law enforcement agencies, who seem to believe that while working for the Government their sole and only objective must be to convict regardless of the process...