Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality, as anyone involved with criminal justice can attest to, is far different. In the vast majority of cases, the accused has no trial. His "day" in court is the few minutes it takes him to plead guilty. "Here we have an elaborate jury trial system, and only 10% of the accused get to use it," says Colorado Law School Professor Albert H. Alschuler. "That's like solving America's transportation problems by giving | 10% Cadillacs and making the rest go barefoot." For most defendants, justice is done by way of a deal: a guilty plea in exchange...
...loads, Alaska courts had sufficient slack to absorb more trials. Efficiency techniques instituted 16 months before the ban continued to whittle down court delay. More careful screening out of weak cases also helped. But the main reason Alaska's courts could keep up is that defendants continued to plead guilty in droves. The percentage of accused choosing to exercise their right to trial increased only from 6.7% to 9.6%. Why? "Because defendants know they have nothing to gain by going to trial," says Stevens Clarke, a University of North Carolina professor of public law and government who monitored...
...with a pair of glasses so thick that he keeps walking into things? I hate to admit it, but I did. Will you giggle helplessly when an assassin hands Sellers a round, black bomb with a sizzling fuse and tells him it's a special delivery package? Again, I plead guilty. How does Edwards get away with this old schtick? By keeping, I believe, his technique straightforward and limp, with no shock-cutting or screwy camera angles to jar us. Most of his shots are familiar medium-close-ups, underscored by Henry Mancini's familiar, likable Muzak...
...became, like his evangelical namesake, "an apostle on the move." He was the first Pope in modern times to leave Europe, traveling more than 70,000 miles outside Italy and visiting every continent but Antarctica. In 1965 he flew to the U.S. to address the U.N. and to plead, in a memorably hoarse and earnest voice, "Never again war. War never again...
...Steinbrenner was not convicted, nor was he tried. After plea bargaining, he agreed to plead guilty to two charges of violating the campaign contributions law and was fined a total...