Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White is a "waivers judge," which means that he tries defendants who have waived their right to a jury. In Philadelphia, defendants usually do not plea bargain-that is, plead guilty in return for leniency. Instead, they are apt to plead not guilty but waive their right to a jury trial because they know waivers judges will go easy on them. Too easy, complain Philadelphia prosecutors. In White's court, defendants convicted of shootings and stabbings get off on probation; attempted rape of a girl of 16 by three men with criminal records got the three only...
...audience. Young women in long, sexy T shirts pass out ice-cream daiquiris. People sit clutching bid cards in one hand and plates of shrimp, ribs, tacos, fruit, salad in the other. In the aisles, dozens of bid spotters, dressed in implausible ice cream-hued tuxedos, gesture, shout, plead, cheer and jump...
...loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since mid-1978 to plead for tax breaks and relief from some federal environmental and safety regulations. His hope is to ease the financial strain enough to skinny through to 1981, when President Lee lacocca is expected to bring out a series of front-wheel-drive compacts to compete with General Motors' successful...
...tarnished by the conversations. One is General Alexander Haig, who served as Nixon's last chief of staff and who resigned last week as commander of NATO (see following story). In a June 4, 1973, tape made public by the House Judiciary Committee, he apparently advised Nixon to plead forgetfulness to blunt the impact of a previously released tape on which Nixon approved paying for the silence of the Watergate burglars. Says Haig: "That's exactly right ... You just can't recall. It was in a meeting." Haig now claims that since he had held...
...light on a Sunday, to a one-day halt, a short-lived moral victory. Proceedings for the arrested clogged District Court in Hauppauge for a week, and about half of the protesters have turned down an offer to have the charges dismissed in six months and instead opted to plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. Self-defense, they'll say, and repeat their case to all who will listen when the trials open in September. Maximum penalty for criminal tresspassing is 90 days in jail and a $500 fine, but no one expects any prison sentences...