Word: guilt
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...vote of 8 to 2, the Maryland Court of Appeals last week forbade that trial on the grounds that a prosecutor is obliged to disclose only "exculpatory evidence," meaning decisive facts "capable of clearing or tending to clear the accused of guilt." As the court saw it, the apparently not-so-sharp defense in the original trial "already knew or should have known" that Joyce was "a sexually promiscuous girl." The court held that the new evidence added little or nothing to that fact. To say that the new evidence might have further swayed the jury "would be to engage...
Avoiding Damages. By pleading no contest, the companies avoided the embarrassing and costly ordeal of a public trial, and they did not admit any guilt. More important, the plea greatly diminished the chance that injured customers could successfully sue for treble damages. Reason: not only could the steel companies deny the charges in such suits, but the customers would have to prove both the conspiracy and their own injuries without access to the Government's evidence. Clearly, for steelmen who would like to forget about the whole affair, this was the best...
...right to remain silent invalidate later voluntary admissions? In my case, the investigating officer had talked with the accused at the scene, realized that he was a prime suspect, then warned him of his rights. The accused's two separate voluntary statements, made later, clearly established his guilt but were inadmissible as evidence because he had talked, even though voluntarily, with the investigating officer before being warned of his rights. Had I been able to read TIME during the lunch hour (as is my custom), I might have had better grounds for arguing the point during the afternoon...
...hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America-worse than alcohol...
...Louisiana), the court answered much of the criticism by holding that retroactivity depends on each decision's purpose. When a ruling concerns the right to counsel, as in Gideon, it is likely to be made retroactive, because it raises new questions about the prisoner's actual guilt. By contrast, the court refused to make Mapp retroactive because that decision had what lawyers call the "prophylactic" purpose of deterring lawless police action in the future...