Word: favor
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Sullivan added that the University presented its case as if it was preparing for a law suit against the commission if didn't rule in Harvard's favor...
...iron from other foods. The co-authors added and expanded sections on the role of fathers in childbirth, breast-feeding for working mothers, and child abuse and neglect. Spock, a ban-the-bomb advocate since 1962, included a personal note sternly urging parents to vote for candidates who favor a nuclear freeze...
...swaying with the breeze of public opinion. Morgenthau rationalized his decision not to allow any of the youths to testify by saying that he did not want to give them automatic immunity from any pending criminal charges. He suspected that such a guarantee might prejudice the jurors in favor of Goetz...
...using grand juries only in cases where no one has yet been arrested. Another proposal would allow prosecutors to offer only partial immunity to witnesses in an attempt to solve problems like the one Morgenthau faced with Goetz's victims. Britain abandoned the grand jury system in 1933 in favor of hearings before a magistrate. Yet even though grand juries are under & heavy fire in some states, Morgenthau points out: "I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge...
Indeed, many of those who defend Goetz say his indictment is really an indictment of the system, which they say is stacked in favor of the criminal. Two of the youths who accosted Goetz on the subway were granted immunity from prosecution as an enticement to testify against Goetz before the grand jury. Goetz, by contrast, was refused partial immunity and decided not to testify. Declared Barry Slotnick, one of Goetz's lawyers: "This is a case of the muggers against the muggees, and Round 2 was won by the muggers." William Kunstler, who is representing one of the wounded...