Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immune Pros. Naturally, the Philippine crime rate has stubborn social origins, including the trauma of Japanese occupation, serious unemployment, an average annual income of $140 and the growing pains of a very young nation. In addition the Philippine legal system is appallingly weak. At the top, the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is so all-embracing that the court has an ever-mounting backlog (now three years), and some decisions are reached only after six years. The country's lower courts are so swamped (243,200 cases) that even Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around...
There he was in the Maryland penitentiary serving 40 years for assault, his tenth sentence in 18 years. For Convict George McChan, 34, it seemed like the end of the line. Suddenly, all the legal breaks went McChan's way. Out went his indictment, because Maryland's top court voided a requirement that grand jurors-including the grand jurors that indicted him-affirm belief in God. The same fate has befallen several hundred other indictments; in many cases the result has been a new indictment and a retrial. But a retrial of McChan was out, because the Supreme...
Last week, five days after McChan's release, Judge Carter's stock as a prophet went up while McChan's legal luck began to run out. Two gunmen held up a Baltimore bar, shot a barmaid twice and killed the manager as he knelt in front of his safe from which he had just handed over the cash. The barmaid managed to give police a description. Next day police spotted the getaway car, found McChan in it, held him on suspicion of murder...
...from the end of June to the end of July, a record high $3.7 billion in new issues of bonds and stocks hit the money market in August. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury was corning to the banks for billions more to finance the budget deficit. Under longstanding moral and legal commitments that they could not ignore, the banks were also shelling out corporate loans faster than they were taking in deposits. In New York City banks, the ratio of loans climbed to well over 70% of deposits, a 45-year peak...
...already a matter of legal record that Dr. Sam Sheppard is entitled to a massive grievance against the press. After serving nearly ten years of a life sentence for the 1954 bludgeon-murder of his wife, the Ohio osteopath won a second trial on the ground that newspaper stories had made him the victim of "inherently prejudicial publicity" - and subsequent acquittal...