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...Justices agreed. It would be unconstitutional, they declared unanimously, for the law to limit a trial judge's discretion to reduce a three-strike sentence "in furtherance of justice." Prosecutors are allowed to plea-bargain under the law--and so, if they choose, disregard prior convictions. If judges were not allowed to do likewise, the balance of power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches would be skewed. "The legal system has long recognized that rigid application of the law can produce injustice," said Paul Boland, president of the California Judges Association, applauding the ruling. Many...
...that despite federal rules, Marceca was able to inspect his FBI file in Craig Livingstone's office after he was dismissed over a problem in his FBI background report." Marceca read allegations against him given to the FBI by two women, whom he later sued for slander. Marceca's plea comes as a further embarrassment to a Clinton Administration trying to quietly put the whole files fiasco to rest. "This is the first indication that the FBI files were misused," says Carney. "There may not be a sinister motive, but gross incompetence is not something to dismiss." Carney reports that...
...recent plea for "tolerance" and "civility" in the abortion debate, Dole got tolerance and civility off to a shaky start by accusing the Democrats of "hard-line views" and "extremism." Certainly nothing in the Democratic platform is as hard-line and extreme as the Republican call for executing abortion patients. But Dole wishes to make much of an episode at the 1992 Democratic Convention that has achieved mythic status in the abortion debate...
...American standards, many of the Yeltsin campaign's tactics are pretty crude--and none more so than God Forbid, a six-page newspaper warning of dire consequences if Zyuganov wins. On the front page of the first issue, which has already flooded 10 million Russian homes, a fabricated plea from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into...
Zyuganov's career as an opposition leader has been characterized by caution and measured ambition. In July 1991 he and 11 others signed an open letter titled "A Word to the People," a blistering plea to save the Soviet Union from Gorbachev's reforms. The letter, which Prokhanov wrote, marked the birth of the union between Communists and nationalists that some fear will transform Zyuganov's coalition into a Russian version of Hitler's National Socialist party. It also foreshadowed the failed coup by party hard-liners the following month. Although he proudly calls himself a "leading ideologist...