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When the two robbers entered a liquor store in Oakland, Calif., they did not see Linda West, wife of the owner, who was standing on a ladder checking the stock. As she watched. John Smith started waving a gun at her husband, and James Daniels nervously warned, "Don't...
Necessary Addition. The knottiest point for the justices was an earlier California Supreme Court decision that simply pointing a gun at someone is not "sufficiently provocative of lethal resistance" to support a charge of murder against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case...
> Charged with first-degree murder and confronted with strong state's evidence of his guilt, Henry Alford of Winston-Salem, N.C., waived a jury trial and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Under North Carolina law, he thus risked a 30-year sentence instead of death. But even while...
Though it was strictly harmony and counterpoint from then on, a certain unison of thought and execution dominated their recital. The performance-notable, among other things, for the way Jacqueline sometimes wrapped her long, graceful arms around the cello in a passionate embrace-fully deserved the audience's round...
In this "sexually sick culture," three fourths of murder victims are women; only one-twentieth of the murderers are women, she said. Rape is an "every day affair, a form of public lynching." Illegal abortion is equivalent to "state execution."