Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury of five women and one man believed Huebschen's contention that Rader demoted him from his job as a disability-insurance supervisor because he refused her sexual advances. Stumbras, an administrator of the state agency, was held liable for not remedying Huebschen's harassment complaints. The verdict will probably be appealed...
DERSHOWITZ DOES a much better job defending his profession than his style. It can be a hard case to make. Especially in the wake of the Hinckley verdict, defense lawyers increasingly seem like hired guns, masters at choosing exculpatory techniques for their clients. Many seem oblivious to the reality that, as Dershowitz himself acknowledges, "Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty." A good number care more about their professional "won-lost records" than about insuring equal justice...
...people find the jury guilty of temporary insanity for its verdict in the trial of John Hinckley [July...
Most people who have served at trials can sympathize with the perplexities of the Hinckley jury. After delivering a verdict, many jurors leave the courtroom feeling that a travesty of justice has taken place. In reality they have followed precisely the judge's instructions regarding the law, and yet somehow the outcome is skewed, if not all wrong...
...after the initially warm reception, some began to find the popular and violent images and story-lines in Garp a little less wonderful. While the book continued to sell rapidly, an inverse reaction occurred in literary circles. The jury went back into session on Irving and produced a revised verdict, charging him with excessive, gratuitous treatment of human fears and tragedy in his manic writing...