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Military courts are more lenient, however, in admitting hearsay evidence that a witness claims to have heard from someone else, which may work against the two Marines. Lonetree reportedly made damaging statements about himself and Bracy to a Marine buddy. While many civilian courts continue to require a unanimous jury verdict, only two-thirds of the jurors in a court-martial are needed for conviction -- meaning less chance that the defendants can fall back on one stubborn holdout...
...years such disparities have troubled both liberals concerned about equal justice and conservatives fuming over lenient sentences. To make punishment more uniform, and more certain, Congress in 1984 authorized a commission to devise new sentencing formulas for use in federal courts, where some 40,000 criminal sentences are handed down annually. After 18 months of hearings and study, the U.S. Sentencing Commission last week issued its guidelines. Their tangle of numerical tables may rationalize court penalties, but they are expected to add thousands of inmates to already overflowing prisons...
Chuckling as the lights came up in his home screening room, Dewitt felt satisfied that at last his son had learned his lesson about right and wrong--and also about film comedy. But would he appear too lenient in the child's eyes if he let him off the hook now? Dewitt wasn't sure, but he knew one thing: he sure was in the mood for another movie...
...theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between a "clear probability" and "well-founded fear...
...crisis soon arose. Harvard, for reasons that still befuddle many a blueblood, began to grow more lenient in its admission policy. Strange new men populated this formerly sacred ground--the strangest of whom, because of their bumpy body shapes and high pitched voices, became known pejoratively as "women...