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Cohen said that the delay in the prosecution of the experimenters' case is due partially to attornies' decision "to wait and watch the Edelin decision," and that a motion to dismiss based on a defendant's right to a "speedy trial" would thus probably be out of order...
...increasing propensity to jail and dismiss defense attorneys for minor or nonexistent infractions led finally to an effort to spike Cannon. Last week a California judicial commission formally asked the state supreme court to remove the Stanford Law School graduate for willful misconduct and actions "prejudicial to the administration of justice." Judge Cannon was forthwith suspended pending the court's decision. She has yet to shoot back with her reaction-at least in public...
Peggy S. Rigg, Sing's lawyer, said in court yesterday. "The decision to dismiss my client was based on a sexual stereotype of women which says that because she is a woman and because she has a child she will miss work...
Judge James P. McGuire has failed to dismiss the case repeatedly, most notably when the defense documented the sexually-discriminatory nature of jury selection as grounds for such action. However, having heard the twisted contentions of the prosecution. McGuire should recognize its malignant Indictment as just a crudely-veiled effort to circumvent the law and limit the practice of abortions. Before dignifying the prosecution by reading the law to the jury or hazarding what is much more than just one doctor's license by allowing the jury to decide. McGuire should end the charade now and throw this case...
...view of the immense distance that China has traveled in its first quarter-century under Communist rule, nobody could dismiss out of hand its chances of achieving Chou's goal. Nonetheless, China also has a way of lurching unpredictably from stability to turbulence and back again (see box page 29). Despite the present hopeful signs, few Sinologists are willing to bet their reputations on a really long interlude of tranquillity...