Word: trialing
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...tell us about taking into account "humanitarian reasons" for the immediate release of the dictator, as if humanitarian considerations played a role in the thousands of torture sessions that occurred in Chile during Pinochet's regime. The charges against Pinochet are most serious. If he is not brought to trial, humanity will lose the opportunity to resolve a great misunderstanding: the confusion between ideology and fascism. DANILO ZIMBRES Sao Paulo...
...blocked broadcasting the work of the Supreme Court. But this week the professorial 74-year-old will cross the narrow street that separates his courthouse from the Capitol to become, at least for a while, the most televised person in America, the one in charge of President Clinton's trial in the Senate...
...role of a lifetime, and he's prepared. In 1992 he published Grand Inquests, a 278-page history of the 19th century impeachment trials of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co., to reissue it next week in paperback. The book is painfully judicious in refusing to offer opinions but seems to applaud the acquittals...
Indeed, even liberals expect him to run the Senate trial in a way that commands bipartisan respect. "He's perfect for this job," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University school of law. "He'll behave with all the politesse and decorum of a visitor in someone else's house. He has a keen sense of place." But if Rehnquist finds his unusual role less than appealing, he has himself partly to blame. When Clinton petitioned the court to defer the Paula Jones case until after his presidency, Rehnquist joined the other Justices in ruling that "it appears...
While the genetic dragnet cast over Lawrence has not yet yielded any arrests, it has led to controversy. Over the past decade, as anybody who followed the O.J. Simpson trial can attest, DNA profiling has become almost as important a part of crime fighting as fingerprinting. But even as technology pushes forensic science forward, the Constitution has worried it back. The Fourth Amendment guarantees citizens protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, and although the Founding Fathers didn't contemplate strands of DNA when drafting the Bill of Rights, what search could be more invasive than an assay of our very...