Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were members of the elite street-crimes unit, a plainclothes force charged with getting guns off the street. The unit makes up 1% of the police department but seizes 40% of guns recovered in New York. Critics say the unit, whose unofficial motto is "We own the night," cuts legal corners and is too quick to resort to force. "You have to have a new paradigm of policing," says Ron Daniels, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This gung-ho, military-type, fraternity-style policing has got to change...
...whole range of problems that emerge are such that people...cannot bring legal action that they finance themselves," he said, explaining that the possible winnings would be less than the court expenses...
...wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable that his legal team propagated claims that Sellers suffered from multiple-personality disorder. Your readers should know that these claims were never proved in either of Sellers' criminal trials. Why didn't you follow accepted journalistic practices and give both sides of the story instead of filling space with a celebrity's drivel...
...ever get out. Rideau, who taught himself to read and write while on death row for 11 years, kept his story out of the film because, he explains, "it's the only way to get credibility--people listen to you better." He has no illusions that his own long legal struggle for freedom will succeed. "If the courts go by the law, I'll win. If not, I'll lose. It is that simple." As for the Oscars, Rideau says, "it would be nice to be there. But if I don't go this time, there will be another time...
...ready for another Dr. Death spectacular. On Monday jury selection began in the fifth death-related trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, this time on first-degree murder charges. Having escaped conviction four times before for helping terminally ill patients commit suicide, Kevorkian may be facing his most sensational legal battle yet. It combines shocking TV drama -- Kevorkian?s videotaped killing of Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old suffering from Lou Gehrig?s disease, which was aired on "60 Minutes" last year -- with a high-stakes legal issue: Should Kevorkian be found guilty on charges of first-degree murder...