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Goetz was arraigned on the new charges last week. When the assistant district attorney asked that bail be raised, Slotnick told the judge, "You're looking at the best-known face in the country. He couldn't flee." The judge agreed. The date set for the first pretrial hearing is May 16. Goetz was curiously serene about it all. Said he: "It's probably the best thing. Hopefully, this will end the controversy. The story would come out one way or the other anyway...
...element of their plea to return to "family values." Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention of "dangerous" defendants, increases penalties for major drug offenses and eliminates wide disparities in sentences for people who commit similar crimes. Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson's celebrated reference to New York could be applied nationally when it comes to crime: "There are no more liberals . . . They...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger told trial judges, in a footnote to a 1979 opinion, that too many libel cases were being summarily dismissed--that is, rejected before going to trial. For journalists, the most nettlesome result of the court's shift in mood came in a ruling during the pretrial discovery phase of a suit brought by retired Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert, a former field officer in Viet Nam, against the producers of a report about him on the CBS News show 60 Minutes. The Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that Herbert was entitled to rummage through the journalists...
...filed on behalf of victims and their families that total billions of dollars. Last week a panel of federal judges in Washington ordered that 18 separate cases against Union Carbide be combined into one suit and said that * it would be assigned to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Pretrial hearings could start as early as next month. Attorney Melvin Belli, who is suing Union Carbide for $15 billion in the name of several victims, predicted that the suits could be settled by the end of the year...
...remedy endorsed by the A.M.A. report is new state legislation. It recommends as "one of the most effective" reforms that a cap be placed on the amount of money that can be awarded to injured parties. Another recommendation is the use of pretrial review. Wisconsin, Louisiana and Indiana, for example, already have panels of medical professionals who review suits before cases go to trial; they suggest a settlement if the case has merit or brand it without merit if it does...