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...believed in discipline, and discipline began with himself. He knew his mind. He made quick decisions and stuck to them. Confronted with a problem, a plea, an argument-he always allowed room for argument-he would tilt back in his swivel chair, eyes on the ceiling, hands clasped behind his head...
...system is not that it works badly but that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?and works fairly?is a better way to stop crime, says Silberman, than stuffing more criminals into already overcrowded jails. Bringing plea-bargaining negotiations out into the open, establishing formal sentencing guidelines, and simply treating victims and witnesses more decently would help restore respect for the law. Nevertheless, Silberman cautions, the courts alone cannot...
LAST WEEK: 2-2 (a plea of temporary insanity...
ALDO LEOPOLD wrote his impassioned plea for a land ethic more than 30 years ago, three years after the holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But little has changed in America, (or anywhere else, for that matter.) Man is still intoxicated with his own technology, and through his creations he feels he must tinker with the forces of nature to accommodate his limitless whims and needs...
Soon afterward, Mims entered a plea of not guilty for Hines. The victim again accused him, but Mims "called in a psychologist, a teacher and an administrator from the special schools for the mentally disabled where Hines had been enrolled for several years. Hines, they said, cannot count to three or name the days of the week in order. Jack Anderson, professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, testified that any confession Hines made to police should be considered suspect...