Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laws that spew from legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply...
Some critics of plea bargaining complain that criminals get off too lightly. Others insist that defendants get railroaded out of their right to a trial by prosecutors who "overcharge," i.e., charge defendants with worse crimes than they committed, to force them into guilty pleas. What everyone agrees on is that...
White is a "waivers judge," which means that he tries defendants who have waived their right to a jury. In Philadelphia, defendants usually do not plea bargain-that is, plead guilty in return for leniency. Instead, they are apt to plead not guilty but waive their right to a jury...
Though White prefers parole to jail for first offenders in order to give them a second chance, he is strict about parole violations. In this case, the teenager, convicted of robbery, has failed to report to his probation officer for a month. White revokes his probation and sentences him to...
Moran, who has been on the bench for twelve years, is known for running a strict court; with 450 cases a year, he has to. "The way to irritate Moran," says the judge about himself, "is to ask for continuances." He is a one-man show: he does all his...