Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaking. A few feet away, the prosecutors looked up in confusion, then concern, as the man suspected of killing three people, maiming 23 others, taunting the FBI and terrorizing the airlines, apologized to the judge for not rising "because I am under orders from the marshals not to stand up." When Kaczynski finished speaking, Burrell looked stricken. He thought for a long moment, then ordered Kaczynski and his lawyers into his chambers...
Insanity is its own manifesto. To a criminal trial lawyer, the term has several meanings and definitions. "Competent" to stand trial is actually a low-threshold legal matter. One merely has to be able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only...
...some reason, I've sat here and prayed to the Lord for answers on why this is happening. Since Miss Babin took the stand, I knew I was gonna get found guilty. Down in my heart, I truly believe that the Gerardi family knew I didn't do it, and I know I didn't do it, the Lord knows, y'all know, my defense team knows, the State knows, and everyone else. But that's not the answer. We will never get an answer as to why this is happening to us. But as I write this letter...
...stand, Connie identified the "closest" one as Cousin, saying he was 5 ft. away. They made "eye contact," and he "broke eye contact first." Next, she says she saw "a gold glint or flicker" in his teeth as he said something to one of his companions. (Cousin does have gold caps on his teeth.) She and Gerardi continued walking toward Gerardi's truck. The killer Connie identified as Cousin stopped, bent down and "fiddled" with his boot. (Police were unable to find boots that fit Cousin in his home, and he says he doesn't own any.) Gerardi sent Connie...
Babin is still haunted by Cousin. "It was very hard to sit on that witness stand and breathe the same air as he, Shareef, does," she says. "He knows what I know. Unfortunately, Shareef and I are the only two people left who know what happened." There was something about him on the night of the murder, she says, that she can't shake. "He was the one who made eye contact," says Babin. "I watched his face. I watched his hands. I'll live with that. That's the face Michael...