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Prior crimes can be used, however, to show motive, intent or planning. More recently the law has carved out a further exception for sexual assault, spousal murder and child molestation by bringing forward evidence that a pattern of past offenses in those areas is an especially good indicator of guilt. That reasoning exasperates some legal thinkers. "You can't infer murder from abuse," insists Columbia University law professor George Fletcher. "Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide." All the same, the crime bill that was recently passed by Congress allows prior behavior to be used as evidence...
...worked to untangle the maze of charges each has brought against John Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student captured in Virginia and accused of killing two abortion-clinic employees in the Boston area. Salvi was returned to Massachusetts, where he faces murder charges. In a bizarre statement denying guilt and alleging discrimination against Catholics (by Freemasons, no less), Salvi said that if convicted, "I wish to receive the death penalty," but if acquitted, "I will become a Catholic priest...
Richie Arias is a societal malignancy, a weak, charming, tirelessly manipulative man who inspires thoughts of therapeutic homicide in almost everyone who knows him. We met him a couple of years ago in Richard North Patterson's crisp courtroom drama, Degree of Guilt. There he was a minor character, the shiftless, sponging husband of the heroine, attorney Terri Peralta. Since then Richie has metastasized, and in Patterson's new legal thriller, Eyes of a Child (Knopf; 590 pages; $25), his rottenness drives the action. His psychology is that of an exceedingly clever stalker, and after Terri moves out with their...
Talented Harvard administrators really know how to spice up our vacations with some guilt and fear. Who except for masochists would ever have thought of placing final exams after the holidays? Two weeks of strained holidays, with exams, papers and final projects hanging over our heads just isn't the way we should live. Fortunately, always-resourceful Harvard students have fared pretty well...
...even a number of Jews. He is criticizing Jews as a whole, the entire Jewish people. This is the essence of bigotry. To listen to Martin, one gets impression that merely to be Jewish is to be guilty of a crime against the Black race. This collectivization of guilt is an abhorrent concept, which must be combated...