Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule will now apply to all inquests in Massachusetts. The state's highest court did not treat the Kennedy case as one requiring special consideration...
...last week), pleasant-looking Marine veteran of Viet Nam, Lance Corporal Rafael Minichiello was absent without leave from Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Italian-born lad thought the Corps had cheated him of $200 in pay. To get even, he had broken into a PX and was facing a special court-martial when he quit Pendleton...
...chose an irrational way to achieve it. Italian authorities announced that Minichiello will stand trial for kidnaping and hijacking. In New York, U.S. officials filed charges of air piracy, kidnaping and other offenses that carry penalties from 20 years' imprisonment to death. At his Marine Corps court-martial, Minichiello faced a maximum sentence of only six months in the brig without pay and a bad-conduct discharge...
When the boys' mother asked a court to authorize the transplant operation, the guardian appointed by the state to represent Jerry in the case objected. The state, he argued, had no power to approve the removal of an organ from a mental incompetent. Even so, the court approved the surgery on the ground that Jerry's well-being "would be jeopardized more severely by the loss of his brother than the removal of a kidney...
...Kentucky Court of Appeals has just upheld that Solomonic decision, but not without severe debate. Speaking for three dissenters, Judge Samuel Steinfeld was troubled by his "indelible" recollection of Nazi Germany's "genocide and experimentation with human bodies." Steinfeld argued that the mother had not demonstrated conclusively that the operation would benefit the retarded brother. "The ability to fully understand and consent," he declared, "is a prerequisite to the donation of a part of the human body...