Word: judgmentalism
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...case has also attracted attention from advocates for the mentally disabled, who believe that any unchaperoned confession by a retarded defendant is suspect. As a teen, Davis was diagnosed with "organic brain disfunction," which doctors date to a bicycle accident suffered at age 10; in their judgment, he falls within the "borderline range of intelligence." According to Richard Ofshe, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in interrogation techniques, "Mentally retarded people get through life by being accommodating whenever there is a disagreement. They've learned that they are often wrong; for them, agreeing...
...convictions on any of the 65 criminal counts. Now the family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders) and his wife Myra, the film feverishly aims to convince any doubters that the McMartins were the victims of a terrible injustice...
Dudley residents say they appreciate the privacy and freedom from judgment non-House life offers...
Lawyer Herve Cren presented both cases in thetrial and asked the court to see what it could doin maintaining judgment in Suleiman's case. Butthe judges did not mention Suleiman in theverdict...
Criticism of Lacey's judgment has been building since last July, when he issued a 79-page report exonerating Teamsters boss Ron Carey, a self-styled reformer, from allegations that he is linked to organized crime. Lacey conducted his probe as the leader of the Independent Review Board, the three-member federally created agency that polices the union. While the board's report criticized Carey for some dishonesty in matters relating to his real estate dealings, it accepted his denials regarding the Mob. Critics in the union described Lacey 's report as a whitewash, while Carey claimed...