Word: menendez
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...Hanoukai verdict provoked little of of the turmoil attending the acquittals of Lorena and John Bobbitt and the hung juries of the Menendez brothers. But critics charge that all these legal proceedings illustrate the same trend: juries are increasingly willing to make allowances for mitigating circumstances once considered largely irrelevant -- abused spouses who kill, violated children who murder incestuous parents, victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome driven to violence by disturbing flashbacks...
...criminal-justice system is "on the verge of a crisis of credibility," says Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He admits that in the Menendez brothers' cases, he and his team underestimated "the emotional pull" the abuse defense had on the jurors. Garcetti hopes to head off such tendencies among jurors by changing the system itself. At his initiative, a team of judges along with the heads of the state and county bar associations has formed a task force to study the possibility of altering rules about juries. Among ideas to be explored: broadening the pool of jurors to include...
...coming months, prompting the networks to trundle out their most lurid and spectacular offerings. This May, for instance, ABC has scored with an apocalyptic four- part mini-series based on Stephen King's The Stand; CBS is airing a TV movie with the can't-miss title Menendez; Fox inexplicably wasted its own Menendez movie on the nonsweeps month of April, but has countered with episodes of some of its most popular programs in 3-D and scratch-'n'-sniff "Aromavision...
...There's a chip on his shoulder these days that, when he digs deeper than Bobbitt-Harding-Menendez for material, puts an unpleasant defensive spin on the observations. We laugh, sure, and marvel...
...connoisseur of the judicially sensational, attending many a grotesque trial. Waters can sagely note the media's glamorizing and merchandising of felony -- "These days you can commit a crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...