Word: prosecutors
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Robert Hines, city prosecutor for Ithaca, N.Y. and Joseph Jock, district attorney of Tompkins County, are investigating the damage done to the admissions office during the student sit-in in order to determine whether enough evidence exists to bring charges against individual students...
...Massachusetts Supreme Court is now considering on appeal, has more to do with the rights of patients than it does with abstract definitions of birth and death. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for manslaughter following an abortion he performed on October 3, 1973 was the triumph of a zealous prosecutor in limiting women's right to abortion. Although stricter legislation on abortion in this state was passed in 1974, the Edelin conviction stands as a grim symbol for women who believe in abortion as a right...
...turns Margaux's profession against her, forcing her to admit that she sometimes has used impure thoughts to get herself into the mood for a sexy photograph. The jury decides at once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...
...side, the question remains: Should the more personal descriptions of Nixon's behavior have been published? Kissinger authorized a statement deploring the authors' "indecent lack of compassion." Betty Ford argued that parts of the book "could have been omitted." One of Watergate's heroes, former Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, went further, saying of those who talked to Woodward and Bernstein: "They should be ashamed of themselves...
Raids on porn establishments and arrests continue, but they are increasingly taking on the look of ragtag rear-guard actions against an onrushing horde. Says Seattle's King County prosecutor Christopher Bayley: "We filed case after case, but unfortunately, the juries' reactions were so disparate we were unable to come up with anything to guide police and law-enforcement agencies...