Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann told the subcommittee there was no need to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation...
...Robert Jones, 36, stood before the bench in a Chicago courtroom, having just been sentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison for murdering two brothers in a robbery. A voice boomed: "I hope you die in prison!" It was not one of the victims' family or the prosecutor who cried out; it was the judge...
...eyes are baggy from lack of sleep, and his speech has quickened and become more salty. Last week, after 100 hectic days as special counsel for the Government Services Administration, former Federal Prosecutor Vincent Alto declared that the web of GSA mismanagement, employee theft and kickbacks from private contractors he has begun to uncover could well turn out to be "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government...
...jury of eight men and four women agreed. On the first ballot, it voted acquittal by reason of insanity. Even the prosecutor seemed relieved...
Presumably, judges should decide sentences. "After all, they are the impartial figures in the System," says Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein. But in plea bargaining it is generally the prosecutor and not the judge who in effect decides whether and for how long a defendant is going to jail. Indeed, American Bar Association standards forbid judges to participate in bargaining, because the defendant would feel coerced to accept the judge's recommendation. Whether judges do participate varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Often, says Alschuler, they do it implicitly, with veiled threats, cajolery, hints, nods and winks...