Word: misdemeanors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public defender programs have been replaced outright by so-called contract systems, under which low-bidding private lawyers sign on to defend indigents. The result: more plea bargaining, fewer pretrial motions and less investigative work. In rural Alabama, poor defendants routinely get no lawyer at all in misdemeanor cases. Confesses one judge in Tuskegee, Ala., who is among those who do not appoint counsel: "I'm afraid I'm in violation...
...make passengers in a car with a drunk driver guilty of a misdemeanor, creating more peer pressure to prevent drunks from getting into their cars...
...defense was that he was really a devoted husband who sought out a poison only after months of pleading by his despondent wife. Under Texas law, aiding a suicide is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum punishment of a $200 fine. Why did the poison have to be so undetectable? His lawyers contended that he was hoping to spare his nine-year-old son the stigma of a family suicide by making the death seem an inexplicable consequence of the stroke. Susan Chanslor took the stand to support her husband's story. "I discussed with Bill the possibility of ending...
Impersonating a Harvard student is a misdemeanor in Massachusetts. In a similar incident last April. Steven S. Grassidonio was placed on two-years probation for impersonating two Harvard graduate students...
Impersonating a college degree recipient is a misdemeanor in Massachusetts. Last April, Steven S. Grassidonio was sentenced to two years probation for impersonating two Harvard graduate students...