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...nurse after a Boston party last year. The sentences sparked controversy, the doctors contending in a tearful courtroom scene that their lives had already been destroyed, and many critics protesting that the terms were too light. The doctors--no longer employed by the University--are appealing, and one juror held a bizarre news conference a few weeks after the verdict to recant her vote. One of the doctors, Hussain, has since pled innocent to two additional counts of rape...
Lawyers for the defendants in the case, however, said yesterday that the juror's statement will probably have little effect either on overturning the verdict on appeal or reopening the case, but may serve to bolster the public image of the doctors...
...handful of newspapers that besiege the Pulitzer committee with many entries. Mindful of the promotional prestige of the prizes, some papers make such elaborately bound presentations that Richard T. Baker, secretary of the Pulitzer board, once hired football players to lift the entries from one juror to another. Cooke's story was entered for local news reporting. In the features category, the Post recommended four others, including one by Sally Quinn (Mrs. Ben Bradlee), who only a little more than a year ago wrote a story so full of inaccurate sexual innuendoes about National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski that...
...would further encourage persons engaged in criminal activity to set aside a nest egg for the rainy day they are caught and brought to justice." In a Boston Globe you-play-the-judge poll, readers voted more than 3 to 1 to send Krutschewski to jail. But a juror who convicted him, Rachel Holmes, was sympathetic: "It would be wonderful if he could serve the community...
When a fire caused $185,000 damage to Sternlofs Timberridge Institute in 1979, Patton asked a grand jury to investigate. A juror told TIME: "They said Barkouras was the Jim Jones of the Oklahoma City jet set. I never really knew what they were trying to get him on. Our grand jury was on a kind of witch hunt...