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...slightly, but the association is too weak to account for America's prodigious rate. What about the widespread use of estrogen therapy following menopause? Studies show only a mildly elevated risk. And while food additives and even lack of sunlight have come under suspicion, there is little evidence to convict them...
Identifying the actual culprit may not be necessary since in California those who help someone commit a crime may be found as guilty as the actual perpetrator. Still, a jury could choose to convict only the gnasher on one of the meatier charges facing the pair, or a judge could decide to impose a more severe punishment. One of the four counts against each of the 21-year-old brothers, aggravated mayhem, carries a mandatory life sentence...
Noriega's extraordinary performance was carefully scripted melodrama, but he was not the only one wondering if he would ever face a verdict in a U.S. court. The government last week found itself floundering even further in its bid to convict Noriega of allowing Panama to be used for drug shipments by the Colombian cocaine cartel. During his hearing, Noriega's three attorneys sought to have Hoeveler dismiss the case on the basis of government misconduct, including the alleged illegal taping of Noriega's telephone conversations with his lawyers from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Miami. Said...
Speaking at Harvard Law School, Jackson lashed out against four unnamed jurors, accusing them of following their own "agendas" and refusing "under any circumstances" to convict Barry of more serious crimes. In August the entire panel acquitted the mayor of one charge and deadlocked on 12 others. But Jackson said he had "never seen a stronger government case...
Rarely, if ever, do the female prisoners get any help from the fathers of their children. In fact, says Allyn Sielaff, New York City's correction commissioner, husbands, boyfriends and brothers usually drop a woman convict "like a hot potato." While wives and girlfriends line up to visit male inmates, visiting days at women's prisons are virtually all-female affairs...