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...readers. The Daily News knows it can sell papers that read "HOW JENNIFER COURTED DEATH" because that's what the readers want to believe. And Richard Chambers knows, at least unconsciously, that only in a society that views female sexuality in the way ours does is it possible to plead innocence because Levin "got rough during...
Opponents of the death penalty will plead what may be their last major argument, seeking to convince the court that a system disproportionately imposing death on killers of whites is unconstitutionally "arbitrary and capricious." In a number of other criminal cases, prosecutors will continue to press the Justices for ever larger exceptions to the rule that makes improperly obtained evidence inadmissible at a suspect's trial. For example, they will argue that heroin seized with a warrant should not be suppressed even if police mistakenly search the wrong apartment...
...Nancy Reagan, the 1960s were a dark and undisciplined time that devastated our young people and spawned a drug culture. Hollywood, once her spiritual home, often failed in its responsibilities to the young and the nation. Now she and her husband are destined to work and plead and pray harder in the next two years than they did in their first...
...York State law, a defendant charged with a misdemeanor, as most drug sellers are, must be brought to trial within 90 days of arrest. Consequently, drug dealers demand jury trials, knowing no judges will be available to conduct them within the permitted time. Overworked judges then let the dealers plead guilty and bargain over the length of their sentences. (The median misdemeanor term for selling crack in Manhattan: ten days...
Edward Marks, 24, a former stockbroker trainee, admitted in an Orlando court last week that he had spiked Contac, Dietac and Teldrin capsule medicines with rat poison in a bid to make money in the stock market. Marks thus became the first person to plead guilty to charges of orchestrating a national drug- tampering scheme...