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...with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard evidence in the form of a tape on which the jurors, like hundreds of millions of TV viewers around the world, could actually see the beating. Says Robin Gant, a student at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, N.Y.: "When the beating first happened, the black community felt this is our chance to show that, yes, we do have rights and you can't beat us within an inch of our lives and get away with...
...civil servants) and that such a group of jurors was desired specifically because it would be almost certain not to convict. Not a few white observers, including some legal scholars, are inclined to agree with that judgment, at least partly. Says Douglas Colbert, a professor of criminal law at Hofstra: "I don't believe it would have mattered what evidence was presented or not presented." But again, white sympathy does little to reduce black fury...
Harvard has already played a pre-season scrimmage against Hofstra which it lost 10-5. Of course, it didn't help that the team was on a bus for four hours before the game and that the temperature was below freezing on the field...
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Princeton does have a tournament victory to its credit, however. Center Rick Heilscher, the tournament MVP, led the Tigers to victories over Hofstra and Baylor, to capture the Dr. Pepper Invitational...