Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases where a woman has committed a violent crime, Whatley claims that the litigant is "much more likely to go to jail with a female judge. A male judge may think, `Look at the poor little thing.'" In cases of domestic abuse, Gershengorn says that women display "more sensitivity to women seeking restraining orders...
...town, and they know what smells. The sheriff, for one. "You down here to help us solve our nigger problem?" he asks agreeably. No. They are there to wash some soiled linen: the bloodstained sheets of the local Klansmen, who almost certainly executed the young men for the crime of idealism...
...December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...
Onstage, Legs tries to sidestep this problem by making Diamond a frustrated entertainer who gets into crime as a way of financing himself on Broadway. The character cannot be taken seriously, and neither can Peter Allen as an actor. A campy night-club entertainer who penned his own single-entendre lyrics for this show ("If you love me, let me see your knockers"), he brings a pervasive tone of self-mockery to every moment and is ludicrously dispassionate as a roguish ladies' man. Like most performers who customarily work solo, he seems unable to engage the audience in any guise...
Under current law, when the Justice Department finds that state or local authorities are not effectively investigating or fairly handling a racially motivated crime it can take over the probe and try defendants in a federal court. This accords Blacks and other racial minority members some protection against local officials who may not be overly sympathetic to their rights...