Word: indictibility
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Both are expected to make court appearances in Sicily in the spring, though Contorno gave prosecutors a scare last week by suddenly threatening not to. Officials see Contorno's move as a ploy to get better treatment and more security. Nonetheless, they are visibly concerned. Contorno's statements helped indict 160 defendants...
Gilbert's treatment was especially surprising in light of other recent mercy- killing cases. Two years ago, a grand jury in the same Fort Lauderdale courthouse refused to indict a man facing similar charges. Hans Florian, 79, had wheeled his 62-year-old wife Johanna from her room in a Hollywood hospital into a nearby stairwell and shot her in the brain. The woman, who also suffered from Alzheimer's disease, had screamed continually, stopping only when she was heavily sedated. In San Antonio three years ago, Woodrow Wilson Collums, 69, got ten years' probation after pleading guilty...
...same: to determine whether there is enough evidence to bring an accused person to trial. But the confusing three-month period it took to decide whether Bernhard Goetz should be charged with attempted murder has put the grand jury system in the dock once again: one panel refused to indict Goetz for that crime, a second panel decided the other way, and the secret deliberations and procedures became almost as controversial as the subway shooting itself...
...Fifth Amendment requires a grand jury indictment before someone can be prosecuted for a major federal offense, and 19 states have similar rules for felonies. A grand jury, called by the prosecutor and made up of up to 23 randomly selected citizens, decides by a majority vote whether a suspect ought to stand trial. The prosecutor gathers and presents all evidence heard by the jury. In most states defense lawyers are not allowed into the deliberations. Grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for any crime they may mention in testimony unless they are granted immunity, a rule that proved particularly...
...clash, Andrew Frederick, 25, saw two men trying to steal candy from an underground newsstand and intervened. When they turned on him, he pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed one of them, Felix McCord, 28, to death. After deliberating last week, a grand jury in Manhattan decided not to indict Frederick...