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...find witnesses. Other extras were simply too expensive. "With more money, we would have ordered a helicopter for an aerial view to show how he was cut off,'' Kaminsky says. "Juries love visual aids." In the end, Lampropoulos was found guilty of a lesser charge and probably avoided prison time. At one point, says Kaminsky, Lampropoulos' father asked, "If it turns out my boy didn't do anything wrong, I get all this money back, right...
...page report released in February, the U.S. Sentencing Commission deplored this disparity, noting that blacks account for 88.3% of all federal crack distribution convictions, but just 27.4% of cocaine trafficking convictions. On average, crack defendants receive prison sentences three to eight times as long as their cocaine counterparts for comparable amounts. Willie Aikens, a former first baseman for the Kansas City Royals, is a case in point. Convicted last year of selling 50 grams of crack, he is now doing 15 years in the federal prison at Leavenworth; had he sold cocaine instead, his sentence would be closer...
Macias left Texas after his release from prison in 1993, and has begun a new life as a landscape gardener in rural Mississippi. "I've had some of the worst representation and some of the best," he says. "Money makes a big difference...
...that has shaken advocates of free speech in cyberspace to the core: a ban on all sexually-explicit or"indecent" material transmitted over online computer services and the Internet. Theso-called Exon amendment, passed late Wednesdayby an 84-16 vote, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years for knowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments overelectronic networks that are accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote...
...backed provisions sponsored by Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.), who peppered a floor speech with references to "disgusting" pictures and material culled from the Internet this week. Exon's amendment, whose victory has sent free-speech advocates into a tailspin, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting"obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments over electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior...