Word: prosecutors
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That explanation hardly satisfied Houston's outraged Mexican Americans, who staged a protest march through downtown Houston. "I think our community is at the end of its rope," cried State Representative Ben Reyes. Similarly angered by the second light verdict, Prosecutor Canales last week obtained Bell's personal approval and then filed a rare legal challenge to Judge Sterling's sentence, demanding prison terms of ten years. Argued the Justice Department: "The U.S. has grave concern that the imposition of probation in this case will cause citizens of all races and backgrounds to believe that the sentence...
...stabbing him 27 times with a homemade knife. At his 1975 trial, Harris was sentenced to death under a rarely used 1864 Alabama statute that mandates execution of a defendant found guilty of first-degree murder while serving a life sentence. Harris' lawyer has stated that the trial prosecutor would not have asked for the death penalty had the defendant been white or the guard black.* There is no evidence, however, that Harris, who was first convicted of burglary when he was 16, has ever been a fighter for civil or human rights. He was condemned...
...members, said the particular provision is "out of the question," as it is unconstitutional. Card attributed the misunderstanding of the provision to a mistake in the bill's language. He spoke of the drafters' intention, saying "The commission as it is outlined here is not intended to be a prosecutor." He added he hoped the committee would reword the bill, removing the commission's power to direct presentment...
...company concedes that sales took place but contends the chicanery was the work of three low-level employees who acted without the knowledge of senior executives. Disagreeing, a federal prosecutor accuses Olin of conspiring to "subvert the foreign policy of the U.S." If found guilty. Olin could be fined up to $510,000 and, far more important, lose its license to manufacture arms...
Nobody doubts Cooksey's abilities as a prosecutor: he claims a record of 3,500 criminal convictions, v. only five acquittals in nine years. "I've got the best prosecution record in the state of Texas," Cooksey modestly admits. But the taxpayers may be getting shortchanged overall. Since 1971, Cooksey's office has cadged five separate LEAA grants, totaling $245,801, to speed prosecutions and unclog court congestion. Result: while there were 799 case dispositions and a backlog of 1,149 cases in 1970, by 1976 there were only 587 dispositions and a whopping 2,400 cases...