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...Lyle's own testimony, his father's sexual abuse stopped when he was eight -- 13 years before the killings. Kitty, though, or so Lyle said, continued to bathe him "everywhere" and invite him into her bed and instruct him to touch her "everywhere" until he was 13. From then on, he said, he avoided her bed, but "we had arguments over that for a long time -- my whole life, really." On Tuesday, Aug. 15, during one loud argument, Kitty ripped off Lyle's toupee in front of Erik, who allegedly had not known his older brother was bald...
...Dakota are the others), and even Judge Parsons granted Sharon a weekly visit, ensuring she would remain a presence in Tyler's life. Only New Hampshire and Florida categorically bar gays as adoptive parents; in the nation's capital, by contrast, local officials held a seminar this summer to instruct gays on how to adopt...
...says. "We assessed what our government could change in its views; we knew the Palestinian side very well through our meetings in the territories with the local leadership; we learned about the ideas of the P.L.O. based in Tunis ((Arafat's headquarters)). We tried to think of ways to instruct each side about the other...
...Supreme Court ruled that a verdict must be voided if the judge fails to properly instruct the jury that it has to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That was a relief to civil libertarians in light of the court's previous rulings that other irregularities, such as coerced confessions, can be deemed "harmless errors," which would not automatically taint a conviction...
...trial judge concluded that Shaw was mentally functional and refused to instruct the jury that they could take mental retardation into account when deciding their verdict. The jury found him guilty. The defense then asked that the court not "sully" its hands with a death sentence for this "flotsam on the sea of life." The judge sentenced Bobby Shaw to death...