Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Empire five-and-dime, and Prince Eddie Rattone, her best friend. For a moment I felt we had scored, but suddenly, in a rather loud voice, Hemingway disputed my bravery at scary movies, and naturally I saw red, slammed my way to his table, and challenged him to prove it. Unable to do so, he threw a martini olive, but it hit Schlubbie in the nose. She screamed and, if I'm not mistaken, he did, too. The ensuing confusion is impossible to recall with accuracy...
McCarthy said, "I never understood that the Commonwealth had to prove its case perfectly, only beyond a reasonable shade of doubt...
...That the Commonwealth had been unable to prove that everyone who was charged was actually in the building after Dean Glimp's warning, either by identifying individuals or by demonstrating that three had been "a vice-like chain of proceedings" to insure only those in the building were arrested...
...direct communication of any warning to leave the premises to any defendant. He said that Watson had an opportunity to give such a notice after the door chains were cut and he had entered the building, but did not. He argued that even if the prosecution need not prove that the defendants were aware of the warning, the warning must at least be made "in good faith" and in such a way that a reasonable person might be made aware of it. Neither of these provisions, he said, were...
Flym, saying the Commonwealth had failed to prove that the owners of the building had participated in the decision to take action, cited the fact that while Watson said the decision was reached about 6:30 p.m., Glimp said it was made before Dean Ford's announcement from the steps of Widener around...