Word: plea
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STEPHEN GILLERS LAW PROFESSOR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY "ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE REMINDED OF THE uncomfortably close relationship between justice and money. If Simpson were middle-class or merely rich, good defense lawyers confronting the mass of scientific evidence and police testimony against him would have pressed for a plea bargain. Although the Simpson trial is to trials like Mount Everest is to a child's sand castle, unrealistic defendants may not appreciate that their court-appointed or bargain-basement lawyers lack both the talent of a Johnnie Cochran and the investigative resources of an O.J. Simpson. An acquittal...
...those of you still lacking in a baseball team to follow, accept my plea for support, as the Mariner faithful will need all the help they...
...Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts of assisting suicide. Circuit Judge David Breck entered an innocent plea on his behalf. Kevorkian has been the symbol for the "right-to-die" movement, but Gibbs points out that many are troubled by the 67-year old former pathologist. Says Gibbs: "Even people who are sympathetic to the issue have problems with Kevorkian because of his extra-legal approach. There...
With those words, Timothy McVeigh responded to 11 charges in the Oklahoma City bombing. Each bears a possible death penalty. Fellow defendant Terry Nichols also entered a not guilty plea...
...insurance premiums. Says Bruce Kelly, the director of government relations at Mayo: "We endorse a set-aside program to fund research and teaching.'' But a delegation of teaching-hospital administrators who visited Capitol Hill in mid-May, sensing the draconian political climate, made only an exceedingly modest plea: if Medicare funding is cut, say, 13%, O.K., cut us 13% too -- but no more...