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...designed the course to be a little more difficult this year," Eric J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said, "in the hopes that we could cut down a bit on the enrollment. I also made a plea the first day for the scientists to get out of the class...
Hopeful talk of "convergence" and a plea for the LDCs...
...argued that no one can be convicted of bank robbery in California unless the prosecutor can show that he intended to deprive the bank of its money permanently. Said Masover's attorney: "To me, that means forever." Whereupon the jury acquitted Masover, despite the district attorney's plea that spending the loot on space stations would be "permanently depriving someone of their money, in common horse sense...
...amazing to me that sociologists, law professors and others typically divorced from the realities of our criminal-law system are sought out as experts on the subject of plea bargaining [Sept. 4]. As a practical matter, bargaining is essential to this system, as a means of streamlining gargantuan case loads, and as a vehicle for ensuring the swift and inexpensive administration of justice, such as it is, in appropriate cases. Any prosecutor who claims to wholly eschew plea bargaining is dismissing a lot of borderline cases, losing a lot of jury trials or seriously misstating himself...
Your article on plea bargaining overlooks a basic fact: that it is the right of the defendant to plead guilty as well as to go to trial. The real question is whether by pleading guilty the defendant gains any substantial advantage. A recent study by the Institute for Law and Social Research (INSLAW) shows that those criminals pleading guilty do not gain any particular advantage either in the length of punishment or the seriousness of the crime to which they plead...