Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past cases, Zobel said: "The judge must, above all, use the power sparingly, and with restraint...Because [the power to overturn a verdict] is a kind of safety valve, a means of rectifying disproportionate verdicts, the test is not whether the evidence could support a verdict of second-degree murder, but whether a lesser verdict more comports with justice...
Edward O'Brien, a Somerville teenager, was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his best friend's mother about a month ago. In October, Cambridge youth Jeffrey Curley was found dead in a Maine river...
Lorraine B. Lasen, who held a picket sign on Monday afternoon saying "Liberty for Louise," said the earlier verdict of second-degree murder was "unfair, possibly because the jury didn't get a grasp on all the medical evidence that was presented to them...
...wake of a surprising conclusion to the Louise Woodward murder trial, opinions about the reduction of the au pair's murder verdict to involuntary manslaughter are sharply divided on campus, as in the world...
Harvard affiliates were tangentially related to many aspects of the case. The father of Matthew Eappen, the 8-month-old victim, is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. The judge who reversed the jury's murder verdict, Hiller B. Zobel '53, is a Harvard graduate, as was one of the main prosecutors in the case. Frank-furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz played an active role in the post-trial defense. And Woodward defense attorney Harvey A. Silverglate has been involved in litigation against the University on behalf of students...