Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first the incident appeared to be just another case of mindless violence. But last week the police charged Riggs' wife Toni, 22, and her brother Michael Cato, 19, with murdering the Desert Storm vet. Reportedly, the motive was to obtain the payoff from Riggs' life-insurance policies. "I'm not shocked," said Anthony's mother Lessie Riggs. "It's something I suspected from the first. I always knew ((Toni)) was selfish. She wanted money without having to work...
...that may not mean much for defendants. If a tainted confession is heard by the jurors, it may help persuade them to find the defendant guilty. But the verdict will no longer be overturned automatically -- provided that an appeals court finds that other evidence would have been sufficient to obtain a conviction. Some legal experts fear that the new standard will tempt prosecutors to introduce questionable confessions in borderline cases in the hope that any resulting conviction will be upheld...
...Sheriff Tommie Robinson, who went on to serve as a Democratic member of Congress since 1985, denies Fairchild's claims. But 11 black men who were brought in for questioning in Pulaski County at about the same time as Fairchild gave vivid descriptions of methods used by deputies to obtain confessions. Three said they had pistols placed in their mouth. Officers pulled the trigger. The guns were not loaded, but the point was made...
Kitchin said that Dunster Superintendent James Hayes had told him that the house would try to obtain emergency funding from the University to cover the cost of the fire alarm. Hayes was on vacation and was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...housing measures threaten opportunities for rising seniors to obtain private bedrooms, committee leaders Paul Henrys '91, Eric Columbus '93 and Kermit Roosevelt '93 said. Floorplans for the annex indicate that there are no single bedrooms in the complex, and seniors who are transferred there would have to live in doubles or triples...