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...repeat, the historical evidence proves that Speer was a witting accomplice in the murder of European Jewry. I herewith challenge him to disprove the evidence. Can a penitent be considered sincere in his penance when he confesses to all sorts of misdeeds but conceals the most heinous of his crimes? Erich Goldhagen Lecturer on Contemporary Jewish Studies
Bailey has no betters at his specialty of defending those accused of heinous crime; perhaps he has no equals. But there are now many more lawyers in the criminal field than ever before because of Supreme Court decisions that dramatically expanded the right to counsel. And, taking advantage of the expanded rights of defendants, the criminal lawyers are swamping courts with every motion and maneuver conceivable?thereby increasing already heavy administrative pressures to plea bargain...
...dissipated most of the suspense. The Countess remains morose, so perhaps we should be unhappy too. Kubrick insists in the dialogue of the last scenes that Barry's crime had been the wanton and irresponsible destruction of a "fine family fortune"--a crime that would undoubtedly have seemed more heinous to Thackeray and his readers than it does to us and, presumably, to Kubrick. Maybe we are supposed to sympathize with Barry after...
Jimmy Carter does present a clean image (his 1970-1974 governorship went without heinous scandal and was highlighted by Sunshine Laws that opened up closed meetings of state agencies; he is not a lawyer and is not from Washington, as he repeatedly tells acquaintances soon after the introductory handshake; and, federal campaign spending regulations notwithstanding, his grass-roots campaign is at a distinct financial disadvantage to those of other "liberal" Democratic candidates because Carter has relatively few fatcat backers). And his friendship with the Allman Brothers Band and other Capricorn Recording artists out of Macon is, it seems, genuine...
...Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's conclusion about news coverage. Otherwise, wrote Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals judges believed Calley was unconstitutionally denied access to the findings of a congressional My Lai investigation, but an eight...