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Always vigorous--even frenetic--in his own defense, Yoder spent the next year initiating court proceedings. Saying his guilty plea had been coached out of him, he tried to change it. The court blocked the move. Yoder also sued prison administrators, alleging various mistreatments. That won him a reputation as a problem inmate who couldn't manage his rage. It didn't help that he wrote "file my motherf_____ pleadings NOW" to a court clerk. In June 1991, Mary Flannigan, one of the administrators Yoder was suing, sought to have him involuntarily committed for a second time. On her petition...
...juices, ground nuts, herbal tea, beans, flaxseed and cod-liver oils. At 16 months, the girl weighed 10 lbs., less than half the normal weight of a child her age. Their lawyer's defense: "They felt that they have their own lifestyle. They're vegetarians." The couple declined to plea-bargain, and are still in jail awaiting trial...
...lure of heady profits" described by Bush in his speech is, in fact, the driving force of capitalism - and it is entirely inseparable from the faith that undergirds all private investment. Reforms under discussion in Washington can address abuses; it remains to be seen whether the president's plea for conscience will eliminate excesses. (On this score the President's words are wishful rather than descriptive - there's been plenty of capitalism without conscience, and character has never been a precondition for wealth.) But nothing Washington is able to do can address the question of excess in the stock market...
...Sources say that Justice Department officials have informed Plato Cacheris, Hanssen's lawyer, that the Bureau of Prisons can't closely restrict Hanssen's communications, as required by the plea agreement, if he is assigned to Allenwood, the low-security prison that CIA traitor Aldrich Ames calls home. Hanssen wanted to be posted to Allenwood in hopes that he might be visited frequently by his wife Bonnie and their six children...
...media shoving match that occurred upon Ryder's Monday arrival, during which she was bumped by a camera. The day's session was adjourned so the actress could seek medical attention. Alas, her broken arm did not seem to elicit the court's sympathy. Despite Ryder's plea of innocence, a Saks Fifth Avenue security guard testified that he caught her last December with a passel of stolen goods, and the judge concluded there was enough evidence to proceed with a trial...