Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Navarrette told The Crimson in an interview last month that Harvard should have a Chicano Studies department. "Administrators were intent on ignoring racial differences in the student body rather than dealing with their consequences," Navarrette writes, as he argues that Harvard has low expectations for minority students...
...public outrage at the crime required it, prosecutors erred by hitting Williams and co-defendant Watson with the heaviest possible charges, including attempted murder and aggravated mayhem, both of which carry terms of life in prison. At trial, even videotape evidence couldn't prove the attackers had a specific intent to do harm -- the very thing jurors were required to decide before finding the defendants guilty on the most serious points. "From day one, we thought the prosecution would never be able to prove ((that))," said Edi Faal, the defense attorney for Williams...
Prosecutors thought they could prove intent simply by pointing to the ^ attackers' actions. "When you take a brick and hurl it at point-blank range as hard as you can into a helpless man's head, what other logical conclusion is there other than that you are trying to kill him or at least disfigure him?" asked Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Morrison. But the defense was able to convince jurors that the beatings arose from the wild circumstances of a riot and were not premeditated acts...
...UNDERCHARGE. Despite the long indictment they brought against the defendants, who were also accused in connection with attacks on seven other people at the intersection that day, prosecutors failed to hit Williams with one crucial count: assaulting Denny with a deadly weapon. While conviction would not require proof of intent, the charge still carries jail time of up to four years in California. That could have been added to any other sentence the defendants received...
...COURTROOM, DEFENDANTS BECOME REAL. To bolster his effort to prove that Denny's attackers acted with no specific intent to kill or maim, Faal sought constantly, and with some success, to humanize them. At one point, in a step that actually supported a prosecution contention that Williams had a rose tattoo that was visible on the videotape, Faal sent his client to the jury box so that jurors could not only see the young man's arm but also touch...