Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge is sitting on the porch of his general store passing sentence on a prisoner who knows his fate is being decided in that moment by the famous Judge Roy Bean. Bean is holding a whiskey bottle on its side in his left hand while he bangs out the verdict with the butt of the pistol in his right hand. A man in the crowd says to his children, "Look, there's Judge Roy Bean." His children don't know who Judge Roy Bean is so they don't get very excited. The man remembers that the Judge Roy Bean...
...Finally, both Kunstler and Boudin spoke of the relationship of the press and political cases. "It may be just as important to influence the public on a political issue as it is to influence the verdict of the judge," Boudin said...
...result was a verdict of guilty (for all but Raskin) and a trial in which few of the larger issues were discussed. That these proceedings later resulted in a reversal by a court of appeals helped Dr. Spock and his fellow defendants...
Svetlana has obviously done some reading, notably Leon Trotsky's biography of Stalin. Trotsky's devastating observations crop up in semidigested form throughout her new chapter on Stalin. No doubt it took courage for Svetlana to accept Trotsky's verdict that Stalin had created "an infernal hive of intrigues, forgeries, falsifications, surreptitious poisonings and murders." That is especially true since she had so recently regarded her father as a "victim" of the atrocities committed during his 25-year rule rather than their "author and perpetrator...
...three faculty members and two members of the Harvard Corporation, was established to review the investigations of the Freund Committee on Faculty misconduct. In disciplining faculty members, the Freund Committee has been the equivalent of a Grand Jury, the Joint Committee, a trial, and the Corporation decision, the verdict, one committee member explained...