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...acquitted in New York State Supreme Court of all charges in the death of Yankel Rosenbaum that occurred during the riots in Crown Heights of August 1991. Police claim they saw the defendant flee the scene of the stabbing, caught him in possession of a blood-stained knife that matched the victim's blood type, brought Nelson before the victim who identified him as the attacker and produced a confession from the defendant within two hours after the crime was committed. Yet the defendant was found innocent on all charges...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: In Search of Justice in Juries | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...hour after the incident, Boston Police stopped a car on University Ave. in Boston whose license plate matched eye-witness accounts. Sgt. John J. McCune said he found a six-inch knife on one of the four teenagers in the car and handed them over to Cambridge Police...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Students Stabbed After Fraternity Fight | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...Weinstein does an adequate job directing but too often slips into cliched staging. This has particularly disastrous results in the several crowd scenes, some of which bear a striking resemblence to a drill team performance. There are some nice touches--the death of the cow is cute and the knife-wielding Little Red Riding Hood is funny--but too often the actors seem to have been left to fend for themselves...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Imperfect Fairy Tale Extravaganza | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

Shabazz buttressed her call for continued action with a metaphor of her husband's. "If someone puts a butcher knife into my back ten inches deep and pulls it out seven inches, that's not progress," she said. "When he pulls it out completely and the healing starts, that's progress...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Malcolm X Window Lectures | 11/18/1992 | See Source »

...cooperating with her assailant -- in this case by offering him a condom -- risks the charge that she invited the assault. In Austin, Texas, the first grand jury that heard the case against Joel Rene Valdez may have concluded just that, refusing to bring charges against Valdez, who wielded a knife during the attack. Valdez apparently told the police -- and the local media -- that because his alleged victim had the presence of mind to provide him with a prophylactic in mid-rape, she clearly must have consented to sex. It is generally assumed the first grand jury concurred with the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, A Grim Question of Survival | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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