Word: duress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Travers told the Associated Press yesterday that Martin G. Regan's decision to cooperate with the prosecution was "free from all duress and coercion." Regan has reportedly been granted immunity from prosecution to turn state's evidence...
...roots run deep and strong in Georgia redneck country. In Plains, his home town, blacks live in a section of their own and attend all-black churches. School integration came slowly, painfully and under duress. Yet in Democratic primaries this year in states as diverse as Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, blacks have trooped to the polls and cast the largest share of their votes for Georgian Jimmy Carter. The phenomenon of blacks backing a Southern white reared in the Georgia backwoods is one of the most intriguing aspects of the campaign to date...
...charge to the jury, he declared that the Government had to prove-beyond a reasonable doubt-that Patty had intentionally taken part in the bank robbery. "You are free to accept or reject the defendant's own account of her experience with her captors," Carter said. "Duress or coercion may provide a legal excuse for the crime charged against her. But a compulsion must be present and immediate . . . a well-founded fear of death or bodily injury with no possible escape from the compulsion...
...person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants. It was not clear what the defense wanted to say." Northwestern Law Professor Jon Waltz agreed. "On the one hand, Patty is supposed to be brainwashed," he said. "On the other, she's under duress. There's something vaguely inconsistent in that approach...
...going to be turning the criminal courtroom into a psychiatrist's couch." Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, the majority counsel for the Senate Watergate hearings, believes brainwashing falls "somewhere in-between" the two traditional legal defenses for felonies-inability to determine right from wrong and extreme duress-and does not quite qualify for acquittal under either of them...