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...fascinating exposure of the twists of the American legal system. Her documentation of the mishandling of the case accumulates and convinces. One point is particularly striking. Harris's defense did not deem psychiatrists' testimony necessary but the psychiatrists who treated Harris before the trial believe that her refusal to plead insanity was in itself an element of her psychosis. Her psychotic depression, they believe, was of several years' standing...
Alexander argues persuasively that the failure of Harris' lawyer, Joel Aurnau, to plead "extreme emotional disturbance" was one in a series of wrong decisions that resulted in a hopeless case for the defense. Aurnau declared that he would settle for nothing but acquittal on the ground that the killing had been a "tragic accident." The jury remained unconvinced...
...mayoralty. She becomes a media star because of her tough, no-nonsense approach to city issues and outmaneuvers the corrupt aldermen whose interests she interferes with. Once she takes office, her television-commentator finance, Paul Michael Martin, engineers a deal with the most corrupt group of aldermen -to plead their case to his lover in exchange for a cut of their profits...
...service fee on the money. They said they were seeing imperialism in action and threatened to take the next plane home. That would have meant default." In the end, the U.S. conceded. During the Brazil operation, a New York banker roused Volcker out of his sleep one night to plead for a $500 million Federal Reserve contribution to that salvage attempt. Volcker came up with the money. In either case, there was no margin for failure...
...years ago, Brooks and Woody Loudres allegedly murdered the mechanic, David Gregory. Tried together, neither would admit who did the shooting, and both were found guilty. But Loudres, resorting to the appeals process, agreed to plead guilty in return for a reduced sentence. Brooks, who maintained his innocence all along, got death...