Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, police in New York suspect that Sindona may be more afraid of the charges against him in Italy, which are simpler than the 99 counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that...
> Last month in New York, the conviction of Eric Michael, 24, for robbery, burglary, rape and sodomy was overturned because he had been tried twice for the same crime. The first trial had been terminated by Criminal Judge Arnold G. Fraiman. Why?
The bench is obviously the worst possible place to encounter that kind of prejudice. Nothing is so damaging to the stature of the judiciary as the common perception that punishment depends less on what a criminal did than on the biases or whims of the judge.
Some sentences should vary, of course, according to the character and prior record of the defendant. The fact that shoplifters usually go to jail if they get caught in Charlotte, N.C., whereas they get probation in Albuquerque, may just reflect different local mores. As New York Criminal Court Judge Harold...
Faith in the judiciary may be faltering, but that has not stopped people from going to the court in droves. Civil suits filed in federal courts, which outnumber criminal cases 4 to 1, increased from 87,321 to 138,770 between 1960 and 1978. Over 16,000 cases have been...