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...between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society that hates "convicts...
...example, the recent headline idea that the nation's courts should double the conviction rate-a sheer impossibility. Reason: 90% of all defendants already plead guilty, are thus convicted without trial. Of the 10% actually tried, more than half are convicted. Obviously, a rate of roughly 95% cannot be doubled...
...cannot in good conscience plead for fair procedures, the elimination of discrimination and the right of free expression for black Americans when the N.A.A.C.P.'s leadership is so hypocritical and lacking in integrity as to disregard those standards in its own affairs...
Though Cushing denied that he felt Mrs. Onassis could continue to receive the Catholic sacraments, he said, "I continue to plead for charity...
STRANGE NIGHT VOYAGE: THE MERCHANTS OF DREAMS (A & M Records). Peter Pan, Captain Hook, the clock-gulping Croc; Dorothy from Oz and Alice from Wonderland are aboard for this Strange Night Voyage. "Grow young," plead The Merchants. "Stay young while you can." And off these dream vendors sail in a rocking-beat boat to celebrate the joys of childhood fantasies. A solid performance, full of vitality, taste and style, with meticulous, well-wrought orchestration...