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...reply. As the policewoman left the room, three cops, with two shotguns and a pistol, took her place. One jerked open the door, and the two intruders burst in. The cops opened fire. Skalla had arranged with the police to drop before they opened fire, but he missed his cue in the excitement. He and Bailey were gunned down; Bailey died instantly, but Skalla lingered for three hours. "In my opinion, they were prepared to shoot us," said Lieut. B. L. Cork. "We shot first...
Taking their cue from California, the legislatures of Illinois and New Mexico have since enacted laws providing age-mistake as a defense. Critic Myers also urges that strict liability be imposed only when the girl is under 13, an age when she "is just gaining the physical capacity to engage in intercourse, but remains seriously deficient in comprehension of the social, psychological, emotional and physical significance of sexuality...
Sabbath observance is one of Judaism's gifts to the ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried...
...Down to Bare Bone." Right on cue, North Viet Nam President Ho Chi Minh answered the Pope's Christmas plea for peace with a typically savage diatribe against the U.S. Ho denounced "aggression by the American imperialists," accused the U.S. of setting up a "fascist dictatorship" in South Viet Nam, and again served up the same four preconditions whose acceptance by Washington would amount to surrendering South Viet Nam to the Communists. "The U.S. leaders want war and not peace," wrote Ho. "The talks about unconditional negotiations made by the U.S. President are merely a maneuver to cover...
Speaking for the California court in the Martinez-Aranda case, Chief Justice Roger Traynor took his cue from Jackson and reversed Aranda's conviction on the ground that a jury cannot "segregate evidence into separate intellectual boxes." In short, said Traynor, if A confesses that he committed criminal acts with B, the jury cannot "effectively ignore the inevitable conclusion that B has committed those same criminal acts with A." From now on, ruled Traynor, California courts must handle codefendant confessions according to new procedures...