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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holland's family was outraged. Last week her brother made public a 6,000- signature petition demanding that Porto get the maximum penalty. "Rough sex?" scoffs her father Denis, a retired policeman. "That phrase wasn't even part of my daughter's vocabulary." It had, however, become part of the public's vocabulary earlier this year during the "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers, who claimed to have killed Jennifer Levin accidentally during an unbridled sexual episode in Manhattan's Central Park. Last week Levin's father Steven held a press conference to protest such defense tactics. "It's become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Rough-Sex Defense | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Ironically, the rough-sex defense may require an attractive defendant to succeed. It will work only if the accused is "sympathetic, not a hardened type of character," says New York Attorney Thomas Puccio. It may also require a certain kind of jury to accept the premise that young women might pursue the ultimate in unsafe sex. During jury selection in the Chambers trial, recalls Defense Jury Consultant Andrea Longpre, "we were looking for people who had grown up in the '60s and '70s. Young people who were experimenting with life." Whatever the truth about her death, Kathleen Holland's experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Rough-Sex Defense | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Wednesday, it came down to Donnelly. The Middie goalie encountered rough seas against the Crimson. But he didn't bail out. Now he's got a weekend pass to Syracuse...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Navy Goalie Takes it and Takes it | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson's only defeat this season came at the hands of Navy and Penn two weeks ago in extremely rough conditions on the Severn River in Annapolis...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Oarsmen Favored in Easterns | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...Because of the problems we had in Annapolis, we've worked a lot on our ability to handle rough weather and I think we've made a lot of progress," Coach Harry Parker said. "On Sunday, I expect Princeton to be tough and Brown, with a changed lineup since we beat them earlier, has a history of doing well late in the season, especially at the Sprints...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Oarsmen Favored in Easterns | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

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