Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosecution's confidence in its case led to the collapse of another defense effort: pleading guilty to save Kaczynski's life. The plea was sent along to Washington by the Special Attorney Robert Cleary in Sacramento, and after several weeks of consideration, Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department rejected it. Said a high-ranking department official: "This man is a cold-blooded killer. Read his writing." Kaczynski's brother David, who turned him in, claims that the government should have fully investigated his mental state, including interviewing the family, before deciding on the death penalty. The Justice official...
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...wary cartel: always in competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...
...pair Louise Woodward: involuntary manslaughter. Woodward was sentenced to time already served; Nichols may face the death penalty. Why? Because myopic America wants revenge at any cost for Oklahoma's dead. Likewise, the country wants to see the pernicious Unabomber die so badly that Janet Reno rejected an insanity plea last week in order to preserve the possibility of imposing the death penalty...
...Which leaves the defense with little wriggle room. Their last best chance to avoid the death penalty may lie in a kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane...