Word: guilts
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...screwed up or that low self-esteem can sometimes be fully justified. But maintaining a robust self-image while being able to absorb difficult criticism is surely worth the effort. It could lead to all sorts of strange occurrences: kids working harder, adults exercising self-control, thieves experiencing--yes--guilt, even grownup politicians taking full and painful responsibility for their actions and words. It's a pity that Torricelli still doesn't get it. But it's a deeply hopeful sign that the voters of New Jersey...
...hard-wired to want a hunter-gatherer and nearly has an affair with one, an alpha millionaire client. But she cheats on her boss instead, stealing "Illicit Mummy Time," which requires "the same lies to get away for the tryst, the same burst of fulfillment and, of course, the guilt...
...jury nullification, would base criminal convictions on juries’ judgment not only on the facts of a case, but on the soundness of the law broken. Under the proposed Amendment A, to be voted on during the November elections in South Dakota, individual defendants could confess their guilt but ask for acquittal by arguing that the laws violated were misguided. Juries would then decide whether the law, as applied in a specific case, was fair and appropriate. A jury could refuse to convict even admitted criminals if it decided that the laws under which they were charged were unfair...
...compelled to abide by the law or face criminal penalties. Jury nullification undermines the status of the legal code as applicable to all members of society by introducing an element of caprice into what should be a completely fair, standard judicial process. Arbitrary conviction based not on factual guilt, but on a jury’s collective opinion of a law’s fairness, encourages disobedience to the legal code because the certainty that proven guilt results in criminal penalties is weakened. Deterring crime—a major function of the law—can only be accomplished with...
Anyone who has watched Law & Order knows that an arrest is only a beginning. A lot can happen along the journey between suspicion and guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But in the case of the Buffalo Five--accused al-Qaeda cell members Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Shafal Mosed, Yasein Taher and Faysal Galab--law-enforcement and homeland-security officials can be forgiven for celebrating after Act I. This time, it seems everything went as scripted...