Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been denied a fair trial. Sidestepping the issue of guilt or innocence, the Governor declared "the atmosphere at their trial and appeals was permeated by prejudice against foreigners and hostility toward unorthodox political views." Added Dukakis: "Sacco and Vanzetti would not have wanted to be pardoned, even if it were possible; for they maintained their innocence to the end. They...
...mistaken. A short time later, however, a convicted felon also in the lineup told the FBI that he had overheard Brantley and Walls whispering about the robbery. Additional evidence was marshaled, and both Walls and Brantley were put on trial. The jury could not agree about Brantley's guilt, and the Government dropped the charges, but Walls was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison...
...1960s saw the dissipation of the traditional controls of society. There was much more freedom of activity in all spheres, and it was inevitable that there would be more crime. Also, the admission that we had a racist society gave some people an excuse to attack that society without guilt...
...vocabulary would baffle courtroom buffs. There are "contacts" rather than arrests, "fact findings" instead of trials, "findings" in place of convictions. If guilt is established, the judge may order a "placement," not a sentence...
...film shows Oswald's years in Russia and his life with Marina, but switches in a key spot to fiction. The script eliminates Jack Ruby and his fatal shot from history, leaving Oswald alive to go on trial-Eichmann-like-in a glass box. The verdict on his guilt is being kept secret from Ben Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know the fate of the character he is playing. But after reading and talking endlessly about Oswald, Pleshette concludes that he was "a mystery man, as much...