Word: courtly
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...arraignment last week, Soliah smiled at her husband and three weeping daughters as her alleged crimes were read out to the court. Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura says he will allow her extradition to California. King of the L.A.P.D.. claims objectivity: "All we wanted to do was find her [bring her before a judge] and close this book out." Her supporters want history to be taken into account. Says her friend Chris Coleman, a St. Paul city councilman: "It was a different era. It's not a reflection of who we are now." Others are indignant at her treatment...
...Pope to raise doubts about his guilt. They pointed to evidence that the crucial blood test may have been botched and that O'Dell may have been bloodied, as he claimed, in a brawl elsewhere. But prosecutors insisted the case against him was solid, and after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal by a 5-to-4 vote in July 1997, O'Dell was executed...
Prosecutors say, however, that state law allows them to destroy the sperm, which currently sits in an evidence locker in the Virginia Beach circuit-court clerk's office. Otherwise, relatives of "every executed inmate in Virginia would want to have his DNA evidence tested after the fact," says David Botkins, spokesman for the state's attorney general. A trial-court judge last month ruled that the evidence can be destroyed without testing, but an appeal is headed for the Virginia Supreme Court...
...comment on male-contraceptive ads told of the interesting Roman and Israelite custom of swearing by the male genitalia [LETTERS, May 31]. It should be noted, however, that the most common usage of the word testis in Latin texts is as a term for a witness, as in a court case. Thus an etymologist would note that the English word testicle is derived directly from the Roman custom of swearing by the genitals, and that every man carries his own "little witnesses." (And my parents have been wondering what I would do with my degree in classics.) CANDACE WEDDLE Greenville...
Still, I was going to have to change. Earlier this month in Michigan, Timothy Boomer was convicted under an 1897 statute for swearing very loudly--as many as 70 times--in hearing distance of small children, after he fell out of his canoe. Also, last week a Michigan court reinstated charges against a guy named Paul Hancock for cursing at his neighbor, Sharon Carnal. If I were Jay Leno, I'd make a joke about their last names...