Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this potentially exonerating detail was fully explored in court. In what proved to be an astounding strategic misjudgment, Sirhan's chief attorney, Grant Cooper, did not challenge the prosecution's "facts." The defense relied entirely on a theory of impaired judgment, which the jury had no trouble rejecting. Sirhan's death sentence was subsequently reduced to life imprisonment, which he is serving at California State Prison in Corcoran...
Joanne: I think the Bible says it's the only unforgivable sin, but I would never sit in judgment on her. Who knows what I would do in her position...
...turned down initiatives that would have legalized assisted suicide if a patient wrote out a "death directive" that was witnessed by at least two people who did not stand to benefit from the death. Doctors would need independent confirmation that a patient had six months or less left -- a judgment that is notoriously unreliable. "It's naive to believe it can be regulated," notes ethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York. "There's basically no way you can regulate something that takes place in private...
...most supportive of the idea of assisted suicide: "The medical profession has just gotten to where they can keep you alive forever, but they don't know what to do with you." The others, at first, are more reserved, simply affirming that they will honor Sue's judgment. Les says he didn't originally agree, but "if she wanted me to stand on my head and jump off some of the buildings . . . I'd do it." A little while later, he begins...
...Last week, however, the agency asked sunscreen manufacturers to put warnings on their lotions about the harmful effects of overexposure to the sun. And so, as the countdown proceeds to the annual Memorial Day migration out of doors, the untanned masses must rely, once again, on their own best judgment. A close look at the evidence suggests that sunscreens are neither the absolute villain the Garlands make them out to be nor the perfect safeguard that beachgoers want...