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Another problem concerns the length of sentences. Alaska Attorney General Avrum Gross says his decision to abolish plea bargaining was strongly influenced by a 1975 case in which a "violent killer" plea-bargained a murder charge into manslaughter and was promptly released, since he had already served 18 months while...
Behavior inside these prisons was scandalous and unchecked. In the 1540s, while headmaster of Eton, Nicholas Udall was convicted of sodomy. He was later released from prison-and made headmaster of Westminster. Discipline was ferocious and sometimes fatal. An 18th century legal tract noted: "Where a schoolmaster, in correcting his...
Distinguishing between excessive force and legitimate self-defense can be difficult. In Cordele, Ga. (pop. 12,100), for example, the local prosecutor did not see fit to bring a charge of manslaughter against a store owner who responded to small thefts from his cigarette machine by booby-trapping it after...
In October 1973, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, then 35 and chief resident in the overworked, understaffed obstetrics service at Boston City Hospital, performed an abortion on a 17-year-old. The operation terminated the patient's pregnancy and, for the time being, her problems. Edelin's woes were just...
Nolen, who recognizes that the object of an abortion is to end a pregnancy rather than deliver a live fetus, understands the jury's action. "Life is life," he writes, "and as a doctor, I believe Edelin could and should have worked to sustain that brief life." Nolen believes...