Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killers. Rudy Linares, a Chicago landscaper, held off hospital workers with a .357-cal. pistol while he unplugged his baby son's respirator. The 15- month-old boy died in his father's arms. Linares was charged with first- degree murder, but a Cook County grand jury refused to indict him. In fact, out of some 20 U.S. cases of "mercy killings" in the past 50 years, studied by Leonard Glantz of Boston University, only three defendants have been sentenced to jail...
...press. Outraged blacks, many of whom had swallowed Stuart's story as readily as had their white counterparts, let loose a torrent of protest at police mishandling of the case. They were also outraged by the saturation coverage the crime had received, which to them seemed to indict the whole black community...