Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Percentage of felony defendants the public thinks use the insanity plea...
...penalty hearing, three days later, was a disaster. The Cousin family boycotted it to protest the guilty verdict, Robert Epps arrived too late to testify as a character witness, and because Cousin had, a few weeks earlier, accepted a 4-count plea on some robbery charges (an agreement he now claims was coerced), he was effectively portrayed by prosecutors as a hardened criminal and was sentenced to death. Stafford-Smith has been working on Shareef's appeal ever since. "When I was a kid, I read about America's having the death penalty," he says. "I couldn't believe...
...accounts, the Justice Department is eager to talk turkey on a plea bargain once Kaczynski is judged competent. The reasons not to go to trial are legion: the spectacle of Kaczynski defending himself and cross-examining bomb victims; the fear that Judge Garland Burrell has promised things he shouldn't have, risking a mistrial; the popular sentiment towards David Kaczynski, who doesn't want brother Ted's blood on his hands. He may not have to worry. Pretty soon, the Feds should be bringing this whole tawdry trial to a conclusion...
...relatively mild condemnation ? yet Ritter's words, surprisingly, were harsher than William Cohen's. Speaking from Malaysia, the Defense Secretary would only say the U.S. would continue to pursue "diplomatic initiatives." President Clinton delivered a mere slap on the wrist with his plea to Saddam to stop trying to "pick and choose" inspection teams. But while Ritter continues to be locked out ? and while his face continues to be plastered over prime time ? Clinton's constituency may soon be calling for tougher talking...
Feds Want to Deal With Kaczynski The Unabom trial is on hiatus while Kaczynski meets with a psychiatrist. Behind the scenes, the DOJ is ready to accept a plea bargain ? and salvage their rapidly unraveling case...