Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cried one. "I don't believe it." The prosecutors seemed almost as surprised; they beamed and squeezed each other's hands in celebration. "By God, we've done it," whispered Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Stephen Famiglietti. But as Jury Foreman Barbara Connett twice pronounced the verdict "Guilty," Claus von Bülow, 55, did not even flinch. Except for a flush of bright crimson in his cheeks, he was completely impassive, as he had been throughout the nine-week trial. His urbane façade finally crumbled a few minutes later when he placed a call...
...BOTH ARE NOW, in the eyes of the law, felons. The Boston jury came back with a guilty verdict for the public servant on February 2 The Newport, R.I. dozen issued its "guilty" judgment for the public figure on March...
...Chief Justice" Jon Newman, who is actually a judge on the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, delivered the verdict to the crowd of approximately 200, after two members of each team had stated their case...
Little could justify this final verdict delivered by a legal system characterized by inconsistencies and imperfections. Experience from other states shows that the death penalty is often levied unusually heavily on the disproportionate number of minorities filling the jails. There is no reason to believe that Massachusetts, a state not immune to racial controversy, will be different...
...moment the attack was launched on a Cairo reviewing stand last Oct. 6, killing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, at least some of the 24 defendants who later went on trial for the assassination knew how their mission would end. Last Saturday a three-judge army tribunal announced its verdict: death for the leader of the plot, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, his three hit-team accomplices and another of the ringleaders; prison sentences ranging from five years to life for 17 others involved in the conspiracy. Two were acquitted...