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Casey refused, suspecting the offer was not serious. Hale, who had been indicted for fraud in a separate case, wanted Casey to give him a plea bargain; Casey offered instead a reduction in sentence if he pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government on other matters. But Hale refused the deal and will stand trial next month. Casey eventually recused herself from both the Hale and Madison cases, but most belatedly, last November. She would have trouble claiming impartiality; she had been a law student of Bill Clinton's and a volunteer in all his campaigns. Her husband works...
...Brenson, 15, shot dead last month after refusing to surrender his ski jacket and shoes. Three days after Brenson's death, on Thanksgiving, Torey Dyson, 18, was shot in the chest. He collapsed on the sidewalk in front of a large peace mural featuring doves, a rainbow and a plea for peace in Milwaukee...
From that attack, Clinton wound into a passionate plea for drug treatment on demand. "Without it," he said, "the criminals will revert when they're released, and the problem will just get worse. Emphasizing treatment may not satisfy people fed up with being preyed upon, but a President should speak straight even if what he advocates isn't popular. If he sticks to his guns, the results will prove the wisdom of his policy...
...last July, when Ontario Judge Francis Kovacs banned substantive coverage of Homolka's trial and barred foreign journalists from his courtroom. Even after Homolka was sentenced to only 12 years for the barbaric deaths of two girls, the press could not report the obvious: that she had struck a plea. Canadian journalists who had attended the trial itched to write, as the Post eventually did, about how Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was hacked to bits and encased in concrete blocks, and Kristen French, 15, was held hostage for almost two weeks before her body was deposited in a dump...
Clinton rejected the Big Brother approach of Simon and Reno, one not made constitutional by the mere fact of its popularity. Hollywood probably will not heed the president's plea, but the nation should take notice of his emphasis...