Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 2½ years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus (where he spent his spare time studying law), Yankey decided he could do better, asked for a second jury trial on a technicality: since he had been sentenced without a jury conviction, he was entitled to be sentenced by a three-judge panel. He won a new trial. Last week, the same crime brought 41-year-old Cecil Yankey a second verdict. Said a Highland County murder jury: "Guilty" -with no recommendation of mercy...
Should a Roman Catholic judge uphold a law of his land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...
...rather in reality leads to the erroneous consideration that the ties are broken and new ties are valid and binding . . ." In this respect, he added, "your duty is noticeably lighter in Italy, where divorce (the cause of so many interior conflicts for the judge who must enforce the law) does not exist...
...Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval...
...Such unions, by Roman Catholic law, include those marriages of non-Catholics which the church recognizes as valid...