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...most sophisticated objection came from Attorney General John Ashcroft, who asked the Missouri Supreme Court to block last week's hearing. His plea: the separation of powers doctrine forbids one branch from summoning trusted officials of another. He failed, but the high court may agree to examine and rule on the plan's legality after Kinder actually assigns cases. "I researched the books," says the judge, "and I cannot find a thing that says I can't do what I'm doing." His tactic has attracted calls from other judges who may follow his example...
Early this year, before the trial of the older attackers began, defense lawyers thought the case so hopeless that they attempted (and failed) to plea-bargain with Prosecutor Robert Rodrigues. Once again, Anna flew back to Hawaii from Finland. In direct testimony she described the assaults. But the defense lawyers declined to cross-examine Anna. In so doing they forfeited a chance to challenge her story, but they also cut off the prosecutor's only opportunity to draw further detailed testimony from her in rebuttal...
...minor. California is one of eleven states that still punish only the male in statutory rape cases. Accordingly, the boy challenged the prosecution on grounds that in penalizing only the male, California's law violates the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Three state courts rejected his plea. Unwilling to take no for an answer, his lawyers took the case to the Supreme Court. Last week he lost again...
...Tarnower's life itself be tarnished!" he shouted. "Don't say he died as a result of a homicidal rage, of some sordid affair. Restore the dignity of Dr. Tarnower, who himself died trying to save Jean Harris." He ended his impassioned plea by quoting a poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I miss him in the weeping of the rain...
...special poignance clings to the critic's plea, so reasonable only 16 years ago. Today the option of silence is lost in the collision of melodrama and documentary. The Holocaust has been the subject of a top-rated TV miniseries, of William Styron's bestseller Sophie's Choice, Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties and Arthur Miller's melodrama Playing for Time, of countless paperbacks tastefully decorated with barbed-wire designs. Funds are currently being solicited for the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust project in Los Angeles: "This multiscreen, multichannel sound, audiovisual experience of the Holocaust will...