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...percent of those arrested. But they also represent 46 percent of all juveniles referred to adult criminal courts, 40 percent of those sent to juvenile prisons and 58 percent of those incarcerated in adult prisons. These racial disparities are introduced during the decisions to arrest, to file charges, to convict and to sentence. Furthermore, because judges, rather than juries, often make the determination of guilt, the statistics show that the discrimination--intentional or not--is located within the justice system...
Sometimes Norton is the soft guy: a lawyer helping a porn king (Larry Flynt), a fellow whose girlfriend falls for a convict (Everyone Says I Love You), a despondent drone surrendering to the spell of a pummeling anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...
...Much in the same vein as "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," a Finnish television dating game unwittingly paired a female contestant with an ex-convict bank robber. She has been in fear of her life...
...editorial claims the council's "trial" of Burton was "ill equipped" and yet it has the audacity to convict Burton based on its own trial and on behalf of the student body it previously claimed should be the sole judge of whether Burton's actions merited removal from office. From what oracle does The Crimson derive its authority to speak on behalf of the student body? The Crimson is confident in its assumption that students mistrust the Undergraduate Council's current administration; I am as confident that the student body mistrusts The Crimson's presumption in these matters...
...after this disturbing discovery is made that things get really intense. This is not just because it's getting dark (although things obviously do get a little scarier). The real tension is found among the group that survived the initial crash landing. A deal is made to make the convict Riddick a full partner in the group. You can imagine the issues of trust and mistrust that are going to come up here...