Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less famous recent case, a Boston judge took complete custody rights away from Virginia LaLonde, whose only crime seems to be the failure to convince the courts that her ex-husband raped their daughter. The judge found the LaLonde child, a 12-year-old, to be too much under the influence of her mother. Her mother can no longer see her, and her father, the same man the girl called a rapist a few years ago, is now her sole guardian...
JOHNNY HANDSOME. A rarity among crime thrillers, this film is as intelligent as it is well made. A supposedly reformed underworld character (Mickey Rourke) plots an elegant caper against some double-crossing crooks, under the eye of a savvy, cynical cop (Morgan Freeman...
Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is possessed by a primal memory: a rabbi instructing the boy Judah that the eye of God is all seeing; no crime ever escapes it. Now successful and middle aged, Judah self-deprecatingly suggests to the audience at a testimonial dinner on his behalf that perhaps he became an ophthalmologist because he is haunted by that recollection...
...shooting "was clearly an accident," said assistant district attorney Perry Newman. Ennis was joking when he pointed the shotgun at his cousin, and his finger apparently bumped the trigger. Like more than 60 other shooting victims in TIME's survey, Tawanah Jean Griggs was the victim not of a crime but of a recklessly casual attitude about guns...
...acted out of "political self- interest." The strategy failed to prevent an indictment. By a largely partisan vote of 166 to 121, the legislators ordered Papandreou, 70, to stand trial later this year before a special court on three felony charges -- taking bribes, accepting the proceeds of a crime, and breach of faith...