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...when some experts suggested that it may have played a role in the deaths of four critically ill patients trapped in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina. (Louisiana prosecutors went further, charging the patients' doctor and two nurses with second-degree murder; a grand jury refused to indict them.) Two years prior, in a 2004 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Timothy Quill, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, described using sedation to help his father die. Cases like these have fueled public unease with the practice...
...course, it’s hard to indict individuals like Teena or King for embracing a particular gender role or orientation. But it’s unfortunate that the notion of a hard-and-fast sexuality has made its way further down the age spectrum, to the point where a boy just past his 13th birthday can pick up a gun and murder a member of the “wrong” sexuality...
...Ancient Eight history and within striking distance of some of the more illustrious all-time records held by Clifton Dawson ’07 come 2008. Did I mention that he played the final four weeks, when he carried 123 times, with a broken toe? Critics will rightfully indict Yale’s senior quarterback Matt Polhemus for his inability to rally the squad from its early deficit with the pass. 2-of-18 throwing for 29 yards and two interceptions is beyond an eyesore. But the kid was knocked down on almost every dropback. And kept getting up, without...
...nurses and surgeon Anna Pou, whom Foti accused of murdering patients in the days following Katrina. The public rallied around the health care workers, and New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan dropped the second-degree murder and murder conspiracy charges last month after a grand jury decided not to indict...
...Constitution requires a grand jury to indict a suspect before he can be tried for a federal felony, and about half the states have a similar setup. This panel of ordinary people is supposed to check the prosecutor's power by making him present a preliminary case in a kind of minitrial, though one without a defense attorney. But because the prosecutor gets to decide which witnesses to call and which questions to ask, Davis wants to make the process less one-sided by requiring prosecutors to tell jurors about evidence that helps the suspect...