Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the brazen daylight kidnaping and subsequent assassination of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring, Italian investigators have been intrigued by indications that there may have been a West German connection to the crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...
Ideally anyone charged with a crime in the U.S. is entitled to his day in court. The litany of rights is familiar: the state must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused has the right to be tried by a jury of his peers, and an impartial judge must carefully weigh the facts before handing down a sentence...
...million suit blaming NBC for a crime is dismissed...
...carried out by dispirited people, movement without brio or suspense. With all the violent interruptions, it is hard to take the characters seriously. But, since so much of their behavior carries a socially deterministic message, we also can't relax into the mindlessly pleasurable state that a good crime story can induce. We are caught in annoying limbo, made more vexing by the picture's occasional flashes of satirical intelligence (a brief descent into the chic drug culture of Beverly Hills, the hard cynicism of Zerbe and his associates). Finally, Who'll Stop the Rain is just...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...