Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month the jury at a Los Angeles County coroner's inquest ruled that Settles had died "at the hands of another, other than by accident." The key issues concerned the nature of Settles' injuries and whether he was killed by the mattress cover found around his neck. Officer Brown and five colleagues invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify. The family's attorneys relied heavily on Bernard Bradley, 24, the only other prisoner at the jail when Settles arrived. Bradley testified that he had heard Settles moaning and screaming as three...
...squad who were looking for a suspect in a rape that had just occurred in the neighborhood. They tried to subdue Lacy whose mental disorders had included acute schizophrenia. According to some witnesses, Lacy was pinned to the street; one patrolman reportedly placed his knee against Lacy's neck, handcuffed the young man's arms behind his back and raised them high above his head. Later, in the paddy wagon, another arrested man noticed that Lacy had stopped breathing...
...coroner's jury of three blacks and three whites spent a month listening to 100 witnesses. The cause of death, the jurors concluded, was an interruption of the oxygen flow to Lacy's brain due to pressure applied to his chest and to a nerve in his neck. Their ruling last week was the most severe one allowed. It recommended that the three men who arrested Lacy be prosecuted for "homicide by reckless conduct," and that one of them, plus two officers who were in the paddy wagon, be tried for "misconduct in public office and failure...
...terrible reputation. A sin against charity, they said, quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...
...President had left the parade. By that time, the toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death occurred at 2:40 p.m., two hours after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where the left lung and major blood vessels below it were torn...