Word: procuratorate
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To Western law experts, the most dangerous defect in Soviet legal thinking is the tacit assumption by Russian courts that a defendant has been brought to trial because he is guilty, and that courtroom testimony at best can serve only to mitigate a sentence. The Soviet attitude stems largely from...
Defeated Defendants. The kingpin of the Soviet system, Feifer explains, is the procurator. Set up as the state's No. 1 law enforcer, he conducts investigations, makes arrests, keeps an eye on the courts for irregularities, supervises the execution of sentences, and acts as prosecuting attorney. The defendant is...
Head of the Criminal Law Department of the Institute for the Study of Causes and the Prevention of Crime of the Procurator's Office of the U.S.S.R., Nikiforov is tentatively scheduled to give several public lectures during his stay at Harvard. He is the author of three legal works: Object...
Violins shimmer, kettledrums boom, and out of the phonograph throbs the prim soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was-yes, that's the one...
On a hill outside Jerusalem, a carpenter from Nazareth, condemned by the Roman Procurator of Judea and the high priest of the Jews, died upon a cross. Four historians of the time soberly reported that he was buried, and that on the third day the carpenter, Jesus, rose from the...