Word: sheller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan defendants - who also happen to be lawyers - are now exploring that very point. And for the moment, Robert G. Sheller and Daniel G. Driscoll have beaten federal tax raps by pleading emotional upset...
When Lawyer Sheller, 59, was tried on tax-evasion charges a year ago, his psychiatrist testified that he was "suffering from a psychotic reactive depression" when he reported only $9,000 of his $43,000 income in 1959. In his instructions to the jury, the judge omitted insanity as a defense. New York federal judges then used the old M'Naghten test that a man is legally in sane only if he "did not know right from wrong", or did not understand the nature of his acts at the time of his crime. A supplement...
Morbid Procrastination. The jury convicted Sheller for willful cheating. But while he was on bail appealing his six-month sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a key decision...
What happens if Sheller and Driscoll are now actually acquitted under the Freeman standards? In many state courts, such acquittal has a grim result...
...true savorer of the seed would trust another to roast his kernels for him. Yet few desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...