Word: misconducted
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...first surprise is that Kerry Max Cook escaped the coolly efficient clutches of the Texas death-penalty system. After 20 years behind bars, 13 of them spent on death row on a murder charge, Cook walked free in 1999 bearing horrifying tales of prosecutorial misconduct. The even bigger surprise is that lawmakers in Texas--which for years has put more people to death than any other state--have been listening to Cook's story and are considering a once unthinkable moratorium on executions...
...things like, 'How can it hurt?'" says Texas Defender Service lawyer Maurie Levin. "You would not have heard that in the last legislative session" two years ago. The moratorium bill won't pass this time, but stories like Cook's are helping change minds. After three trials involving prosecutorial misconduct, Cook agreed to plead no contest to a reduced murder charge in exchange for his freedom. Two months later DNA test results came back proving semen found on the victim came from her married lover. Cook is seeking a pardon...
...faculty were shocked. In an April 4 meeting requested by Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred F. Guzzetti, Knowles described to the VES permanent faculty the general tenor of the complaints but refused to give them specific examples of misconduct...
...country's fledgling Human Rights Commission has just concluded a public inquiry into allegations of police misconduct last November at an anti-government demonstration. During the inquiry, commissioners heard lengthy reports of misconduct?unprovoked violence, unnecessarily long detention of arrested protestors and deliberate humiliation of prisoners. One woman gave evidence that she was forced to strip naked and subjected to a body cavity search...
...traditional ECAC practice of makeup calls, but his incessant use of the whistle denied almost any flow to these games. Moreover, when Jelenic went over to taunt Jonas and sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim came over to keep him in line, Murphy did the right thing by assessing Jelenic a misconduct, but he failed to give him a minor penalty. Therefore, Yale was rewarded by the sequence with a power play and the loss of a goon...