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...seas once he was sworn in. Last week he embraced the Bush policy, at least for the time being, and urged the would-be immigrants to stay home. The Coast Guard dispatched a special armada of 17 cutters and patrol boats to turn back anyone who ignored Clinton's plea...
...aunt's house. When he came at her again, she shot him. "They say I'm a violent person, but I'm not. I didn't want revenge. I just wanted out." Facing 25 years, she was told by a female public defender to take a plea bargain and 17 years. "I wanted to fight. But she said I'd get life or the electric chair. I was in a no-win situation...
...classic self-defense plea also demands a fair fight. A person who is punched can punch back, but if he shoots, he runs the risk of being charged with murder or manslaughter. This leaves women and children, who are almost always smaller and weaker than their attackers, in a bind. They often see no way to escape an assault without using a weapon and the element of surprise -- arguing, in essence, that their best hope of self-defense was a pre-emptive strike. "Morally and legally a woman should not be expected to wait until his hands are around...
...appeal their murder convictions get the sentence thrown out, compared with an 8.5% reversal rate for homicides as a whole. "I've worked on cases involving battered women who have talked only briefly to their lawyers in the courtroom for 15 or 20 minutes and then they take a plea and do 15 to life," recalls Blackman. "I see women who are Hispanic and don't speak English well, or women who are very quickly moved through the system, who take pleas and do substantial chunks of time, often without getting any real attention paid to the circumstances of their...
...discussions with reporters, Weinberger had also said that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea bargain by implicitly calling for the harshest possible sentence...