Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial brief, Kelleher claims that Director of Administration for the Department of Economics Laura A. Ervin, one of her supervisors, demanded in March 1996 that Kelleher start working on campus...
Ryan refused, however, to discuss the specifics of the University's legal defense strategy in the midst of the trial...
Kelleher's original suit included charges against Ervin and James H. Stock, Larsen Professor of Political Economy in the Kennedy School of Government. These defendants were voluntarily dropped when the case was brought to trial...
...hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged to pals that he was going to kill someone. The trial ended Tuesday with a verdict of second-degree murder...
...trial became a case study of sorts. Under the microscope: A three-year-old Michigan law, the most stringent of its kind, which permits prosecutors, with a judge's permission, to try children as adults. "The theory behind this law," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "is that because more and more children nationwide are committing crimes that we generally think of as 'adult crimes,' these kids should be tried as adults." And despite widespread discomfort with attributing adult motivations to children, the laws are popular in many states. Opponents of the measures, ranging from Amnesty International to Abraham...