Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legal revenge in Kentucky
...times as a special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton shooting took place a year and a half ago, has no investigators to interview witnesses or do any other legal legwork. The prosecutor must assent before a private lawyer can actually argue a criminal case in court, but some are willing just to make a statement of the case at the beginning of the trial and turn the rest over to the lawyer hired by the victim's family...
...Legal revenge is expensive; fees for special prosecutors in murder cases run from $5,000 to $10,000, and some lawyers speculate that Melton paid a private lawyer $25,000. He denies it, but whatever he paid, he was not satisfied with the result, a ten-year prison term for Roberts for manslaughter. Says Melton: "He should've gotten more...
...slow but too quick for the classroom routine. His IQ was a very elevated 169. "He was frustrated and bored to tears," observes his father, Attorney Ronald Irwin. Now the Irwins are suing Illinois' McHenry County School District for damages of $1 million, seeking a legal precedent that would compel increased education spending for the gifted...
SEPARATED. W. Michael Blumenthal, 53, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; and Eileen Policy Blumenthal; after 28 years of marriage, three children. The couple separated once before, in 1977, but were reconciled the following year. No legal action is planned...