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Many lawyers would argue that Raven herself had a good assault case against Callinan, whether or not he touched her. But by a vote of 2 to 1, a three-judge city criminal court without a jury convicted her on all charges. Last week she received a suspended sentence, on...
"Closing probation" is probably one of the lesser known punishments which is tantamount to dismissal. If a student who is on probation either misbehaves or fails to meet the academic requirements, then his probation is closed and he is never allowed to return to Harvard.
Finally, there are the other punishments--the different levels of probation; the category called "no action" or "admonition" where the incident is reported in a student's file, but no disciplinary action is taken. Lastly some cases are simply scratched from the file altogether.
Our prosecutors and judges are faced with the same lack of tools to measure the success of what they are trying to do. Each day in a municipal criminal court hundreds of decisions are made to drop some cases without prosecution, to accept pleas of guilty in other cases in...
The name's the same, but somehow it has lost that old magic-at least to the cops out in Santa Monica, Calif. In the days when Peter Lawford was married to Pat Kennedy, the local police were only too happy to let a helicopter plop down on the...