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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing else, Scale's collision with the judge illustrates a key weakness in U.S. legal process. "This shows that the fragile legal system functions only if everyone is willing to some extent to play the game by the rules," says Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. Believing that the game was unjust, Scale refused to play by the rules. And the able but adamant Hoffman has been unable to teach him any respect for the referee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Contempt in Chicago | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Nosis criminally responsible for Ripple's death? Akron Prosecutor James V. Barbuto could find no precedent for such a prosecution in his state. Words, after all, are not blows. And the early common-law rule was that a man may not be convicted of a killing unless the death was caused by physical contact. Nonetheless, Barbuto charged Nosis with manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Law: Death by Agitation | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...prosecutor had a point. Ohio law says that a man may be convicted of manslaughter if he commits an illegal act that could be "reasonably anticipated by an ordinarily prudent person" as likely to cause another's death. Even if Nosis did not strike Ripple, the prosecution argued at the trial, his threats and gestures amounted to an assault. Moreover, since Nosis knew about Ripple's heart condition, he could have reasonably anticipated that the threats were likely to result in death. Nosis was found guilty, and the Ohio Supreme Court has just upheld that verdict by refusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Law: Death by Agitation | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...universe, says Eiseley, man has got curiously out of touch with it: "His march is away from his origins . . . From the solitude of the wood he has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart." Once or twice he seems on the verge of promulgating an Eiseley law: The more science expands the universe, the more it shrinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Reality | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Flym and his law partner, Norman S. Zalkind, also argued that the Commonwealth had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that any of the defendants were actually inside University Hall at the time of the arrests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury Finds 19 Not Guilty In University Hall Appeal | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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