Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...
Chessman was convicted and sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court on a total of 17 counts. The two counts on which Judge Charles W. Fricke sentenced Chessman to death were not the sexual assaults, but two offenses under the California kidnaping statute, which makes it a capital offense to "seize" anyone "for ransom, reward or to commit extortion or robbery," if the victim suffers "bodily harm." The prosecution argued, and the jury agreed, that by robbing the woman and the girl, then forcing them into his car and sexually assaulting them, Chessman had committed kidnaping for robbery with bodily...
...that denial through the mazes of the courts, and won six stays of execution along the way. In 1957, nearly nine years after Chessman was sentenced to death, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the denial violated his constitutional right to due process of law. After new hearings a Superior Court judge ordered more than 2,000 changes in the transcript...
Chessman attacked the revised transcript, again carried his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. But last December, after ordering the seventh stay of execution, the court rejected Chessman's appeal for a review of a state court decision upholding the revised transcript. A Superior Court judge set a new execution date...
...Combses since the age of ten months. Though the Combses agreed not to attempt adopting her, they found the quick, eager girl hard to resist. At two, she recited nursery rhymes. At 2½ she was put to an IQ test, won a mark of 138-in the "very superior," top 2% of the nation. "An endearing and charming youngster," reported the examining psychologist. He prescribed immediate adoption by a family with "a wealthy educational environment...