Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the police caught Weissman by tracing his license number, a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder, vehicular homicide, and leaving the scene of an accident. Yet last week Eddie Weissman got off with only a mild sentence for second-degree manslaughter...
...typical dilemma, the D.A. was stymied by the problem of intent. Weissman was charged with first-degree murder under a law that covers any "depraved" attempt to kill people in general, though the culprit aims at no one in particular. But the law has never yet been applied successfully to an auto-murderer, only against crowd attackers using bombs or bullets. Weissman might have argued that he was simply trying to drive away from danger when Schaffer got in his way. In short, the D.A. did not think he could have proved intent to murder in general, let alone...
...Carre A Murder of Quality...
...ferocious raider of Ivy League faculties. Yale's bright, articulate Bayless Manning, 41, rolled into Palo Alto last summer completely equipped with wife, four children, a black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come...
Flooding the Courts. Alarmed at the potential damage to state courts, the Supreme Court, beginning in the 1870s. sharply limited the right of removal to cases involving clearly unconstitutional state laws, such as a murder law prescribing a life sentence for whites and death for Negroes. U.S. district judges got in the habit of sending removed cases back to state courts for trial, and when a defendant's case was thus remanded, he had no right to appeal the federal judge's order...