Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he returned to the job last fall, however, he assumed much greater power. Miami voters had approved a "strong-mayor" charter in September, sold on the idea that it would be a tonic for the city's fiscal troubles and chronic corruption. Rather than being just another commissioner, the mayor has broad-ranging authority, including the veto...
...penalty phase to help avoid a death sentence. They planned to show jurors photos of the ripe, shaggy hermit at the time of his arrest and offer a tour of the creepy cabin, which has been trucked in as evidence, all to give jurors an idea of the life-style of the man on trial. Burrell overruled Kaczynski's objections to this plan on the grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should be in control of defense strategy. "The standard for the conduct of criminal cases says that the client has the choice of whether to plead guilty...
...company. Increasingly, law-enforcement officials are looking to prosecute juvenile offenders as adults. Republican Governor Pete Wilson of California has suggested that 14-year-olds should be eligible for the death penalty. Wilson spokesman Sean Walsh says the Governor was not proposing any new legislation, merely advancing an idea. Walsh says gangs in California often use underage triggermen because the gangs know that, if the triggermen are caught, they will not be subject to capital punishment. Lowering the minimum age, he argues, would change that practice. "We have people who are literally assassins, and although they may be under...
...nothing" at that moment, because "nothing" is exactly what you fear the most, that somehow you won't make it from Point A to Point B, that you'll sleep through your exam, that you won't get a job or get into graduate school, that you have no idea where you'll be in three years or two years or even six months from now, that you'll be lying awake in bed all night and never fall asleep...
...idea of a relationship between police officers and citizens is not new and is in some ways a return to a means of policing that is as old as most American police departments...