Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Law professors yesterday differed in their reactions to a bill passed Monday by the Senate providing for the complete overhaul of the federal criminal code. The bill would substantially alter the current methods of sentencing, and change federal laws regarding conspiracy, rape, sedition, corporate abuse and civil liberties.
The assailant had qualified, through an elaborate point system, for special treatment under Boston's Major Violators program. It is hardly news in the U.S. that industrious malefactors, variously known as revolving-door or career criminals, commit crime after crime, year after year. About 7% of arrested suspects account...
Once identified and apprehended, a career criminal will find his case assigned to a district attorney for start-to-finish prosecution. With a light case load (one-third that of other prosecutors), the D.A. usually seeks high bail, or no bail, to keep the suspect in jail, refuses to plea...
Despite discouragement of plea bargaining, conviction rates are startlingly high: 94% nationally, compared with a regular conviction rate of 73%. That rate naturally troubles defense attorneys. Some of them are critical of the program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others...
Law-enforcement officials say the program is partially responsible for the slight reduction in big-city crime last year. Detroit reports a decline in major crime for the first six months of 1977: murder down 27%, burglary and armed robbery each down about 25%. New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick...