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Chris G. Kanakry '03, a member of SAS, said he was hesitant to believe reports of the groups' misconduct...
...mandatory-sentencing laws that impose minimum jail times for all drug offenses. Many of these drug offenders are women, frequently poor African Americans and Hispanics, who wind up in prisons built for hard-core male felons, not pregnant and parenting women. "These kids are innocent victims of their parents' misconduct," says David Steinhart, co-author of the 1993 book Why Punish the Children...
However, strong defense lawyers are especially necessary in cases where the prosecutors make mistakes. The Texas Defender Service identified 41 cases of prosecutorial misconduct, including many where the same prosecutor changed theories between trials. In one case, Gene Hathorn and James Beathard were both accused of a murder; at the first trial, the prosecutor argued that Beathard was the gunman and secured a death sentence, but at a second, the same prosecutor argued that Hathorn was the gunman and secured another capital conviction. One of those theories has to be factually incorrect--yet Beathard was executed in 1995, and Hathorn...
...they were supposed to be protecting. "Unit members violated the limits and terms of their military assignments by intimidating, interrogating, abusing and beating Albanians and by traveling outside of their physically assigned sector to conduct some of these activities," the report said. "The facts reveal several incidents of soldier misconduct towards females, including inappropriate touching, grabbing of breasts and buttocks and the perception of Kosovar females of improper searches conducted by soldiers." Ellerbe didn't see it that way. "My goal was to eliminate the [para-military Kosovar Albanians] and to maintain a safe and secure environment, which is what...
...third game was interrupted by a minor disruption. Toledo Coach Kent Miller was apparently angered by an official's call and continued to yell and scream at both his players and referees Carole Burke and Dave Carson. He was then given a rarely-issued yellow card for misconduct...