Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the entire spectrum of criminal specialties, from crude second-story work to deft embezzlement, none requires more patiently marshaled skills than those of consummate check forgery. The practitioner must combine the nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm...
Out of a similar philosophical confusion-and a similar experience of devoting great amounts of money and national effort to little avail-comes the muddle over what to do about crime. In earlier days, crime was simply punished. Offenders were locked away or done away with, without much thought of...
Concludes Wilson: "We have learned, I should think, that there are limits to what government can accomplish in human affairs generally and in criminal affairs particularly. It cannot export democracy, remold human character, revitalize families; nor can it rehabilitate in large number thieves and muggers."
But because Karen was not "brain dead," few lawyers were surprised when Judge Robert Muir ruled against any "pulling of the plug." Last week the state Supreme Court turned that result around. Chief Justice and former Governor Richard Hughes concluded that if doctors and a hospital ethics committee agree "that...
It took three separate investigations--the McKay Commission, the prosecution and the Meyer Report released last December--before the state of New York would finally admit that the inquiry into the Attica massacre was biased, that the prosecution was "one-sided" in taking out 42 indictments on 62 inmates for...