Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insurance claims are partly fraudulent. Uncaught employees pocket $1 billion a year from their employers. To poor offenders who go to jail without bail the system is unfair, and the legal process strengthens that opinion. If a man cannot afford a good lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial, as do 90% of all criminal defendants. He then discovers that for the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences, from which 31 states and the federal courts allow no appeal...
...pace and pulse of Citizen are reminiscent of Costa-Gavras' magnificent Z. Its nearly surrealistic aspects-as in a fantasy in which his inspection-department cronies refuse to allow him to plead guilty-are rather shaky recalls of Bunuel. Indeed, the film's fundamental drawback is that Director Petri is intent on political statement: the terrors of police fascism. The inspector cries: "Repression is civilization," and such crude political commentary detracts from solid psychological drama...
...January 11 letter to Dunlop, the student leaders of PBH stated, "We do not feel that we have been given an adequate chance to plead our case. Not only were we denied a hearing before the full committee, but also the subcommittee which we understood would act as our advocate, seriously distorted our request and our situation in its report and recommendations to the full committee." Dunlop agreed to meet with the PBH student leaders and some members of the PBH Faculty Committee on January...
...seven will plead not guilty on all charges. Judith Remcho, one of the group's lawyers, said yesterday...
...search, he has had a few bad scrapes. His first film, Shadows, was begun independently and as an act of love. It was finished on contributions from a radio audience who heard Cassavetes plead for funds on the Jean Shepherd show late one night. His next film, Too Late Blues, was financed-and controlled-by Paramount. Stanley Kramer, executive producer of A Child Is Waiting and a director himself (On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg), fired Cassavetes before he could even complete editing Child...