Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson, who interviewed local police and prosecutors, encountered crime victims' resentment even while off his job. "During jury selection last month, nearly half of the group of prospective jurors indicated we had been burglarized," he recalls. "Many could barely mask their impatience with the criminal justice system. After watching them, the accused burglar evidently felt he had little chance of a sympathetic verdict. He changed his plea to guilty...
...Northern California's Mendocino County last year that they were picking a choice parcel for the Federal Government. But the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught them tending an estimated $52,000 worth of homegrown marijuana last October were armed with more than a search warrant. Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which authorizes lawmen to confiscate property used to commit crime, the Kurus faced not only prison but loss of their land...
...taxman that you do not have to pay taxes? Some officials of New York's taxation and finance department, the state agency charged with hunting down tax evaders, seemed to think so. Only four weeks after Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo announced a get-tough program on tax cheating, a crime that Cuomo said costs his state about $1 billion a year, an internal investigation disclosed that at least 69 of the 5,100 employees of the agency had not filed state income tax forms for periods of as long as five years. In New York State, failure to file...
...there is enough evidence to bring an accused person to trial. But the confusing three-month period it took to decide whether Bernhard Goetz should be charged with attempted murder has put the grand jury system in the dock once again: one panel refused to indict Goetz for that crime, a second panel decided the other way, and the secret deliberations and procedures became almost as controversial as the subway shooting itself...
...randomly selected citizens, decides by a majority vote whether a suspect ought to stand trial. The prosecutor gathers and presents all evidence heard by the jury. In most states defense lawyers are not allowed into the deliberations. Grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for any crime they may mention in testimony unless they are granted immunity, a rule that proved particularly thorny in the Goetz case, since his four victims had cases pending against them at the time of the shooting. The target of a grand jury is not granted immunity for his testimony, since the purpose of the panel...