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Most public defenders think not. In Memphis, lawyers lament the plead-'em- and-speed-'em-through pace. "It reminds me of the old country song we have here in Tennessee: 'We're not making love, we're just keeping score,' " says chief public defender AC Wharton. Across the country, lawyers watch with frustration as the bulk of criminal-justice funds goes to police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with...
...tell apart. The bad guys, everybody knows, are local TV stations that try to pass off cartoon shows like G.I. Joe and The Jetsons as "educational." The good guys are kindly kids' show hosts like Shari Lewis, who brought her puppet Lamb Chop to Washington last week to help plead for better children's programming. "We need the best you grownups have to offer," the sock puppet testified before a House subcommittee. "If you give it to us, we will give the good stuff back...
...officer Tom Gahl paid a call on his new client, "Crazy" Mike Jackson. The nickname was not frivolous; Jackson was a 200-lb., 40-year-old addict with a history of irrational behavior. As Gahl approached, Jackson abruptly opened fire with his shotgun. He listened to the wounded officer plead for his life, then pulled the trigger twice more at close range. Fifteen minutes later, the gunman, having disguised his face and beard with silver spray paint, held up a grocery store. When the counterman was a little slow emptying the cash register, Jackson blew him away...
...being called the "Honor Roll Murder," Tay was brutally beaten by five other teenagers before he finally choked to death; three of the suspects, like Tay, were Asian Americans who were viewed as model kids and top students. The alleged mastermind, Robert Chan, 18, is expected to plead not guilty to murder charges this week. The four other defendants, Abraham Acosta, 16, Kirn Kim, 16, Mun Kang, 17, and Charles Choe, 17, have pleaded not guilty and will learn on Feb. 5 whether they, like Chan, will be tried as adults and eligible for life in prison. One father captured...
Owners of 15 Cambridge liquor stores targeted in a recent sting operation plead guilty to selling alcohol to a minor in a hearing before the License Commission last night...