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...touch the money. It may be easier to catch them on the money than the dope." Criminal lawyers, naturally, are skeptical, even contemptuous. "They always say they are going after the financial side," says Houston Attorney Charles Szekely, "but they don't. They find anybody they think they can convict...
...taxes. In another study, more than half believed that nearly all Americans would cheat if they felt they could get away with it. Yet another survey found that three out of four of those polled would refuse to inform on a serious tax evader if they had evidence to convict him. A slogan spray-painted in red on a bridge spanning Boston's Charles River seems to sum up a growing sentiment: TAXATION is THEFT...
...precautions, but the police were too quick. Before Harvey's call-girl business in Orange County, Calif., could put its planned emergency procedures into motion, the local vice squad had seized the firm's computers and software. Recorded on 20 small Mylar discs was evidence that helped convict Harvey on two counts of pimping and one count of conspiracy: the names and credit card numbers of several thousand male customers, descriptions of known and suspected vice-squad members, and careful charts on more than 100 ladies of negotiable virtue, including hours worked, customers serviced and payments received...
...court's decisions since have essentially been refinements and tidying addenda. Last January in Eddings vs. Oklahoma, for instance, the Justices ruled that the judge or jury must consider any mitigating factor the convict claims. Yet to many observers, that sounds like a return toward uncontrollable discretion, the very flaw the court prohibited in 1972. Says former L.D.F. Lawyer David Kendall: "We're right back to Furman...
...acceptance of punishment does not exactly constitute an admission of guilt. Although she was convicted last year of stabbing a 71-year-old woman motel keeper to death with a screwdriver during a holdup, Foster now says, "I couldn't have done it. And if I did, I would not do it with a screwdriver, not to some old lady." This declaration sounds less than ringing. Moreover, it was testimony from her husband Tommy, who had checked into the motel with her, that helped convict Doris Ann. Yet she seems to bear him no grudge...