Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels strongly enough, the University's lawyers can simply refuse to recognize the union, forcing District 65 to take Harvard to court. There, Harvard effective attorneys can challenge the NLRB's 1977 ruling that the Med Area composes an "appropriate" bargaining unit. It could take months, years, for a verdict to be reached. And in the meantime, the 30-percent annual turnover rate among clerical and technical employees in the Med Area would give the unit an entirely different face. Part of District 65's current dilemma stems from the fact that many eligible voters are transient workers, young...
Many Honolulans were unhappy last month after Circuit Judge Harold Shintaku, 54, threw out a jury's murder verdict and allowed Defendant Charles K. Stevens, a notorious criminal, to go free. Some 300 people rallied downtown in protest. The judge responded with a 20-page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours...
...sprinting for fun, competitions--with the old foggy slow-motion treatment, and the symbolism weighs heavily. Add to this ponderous device the dreadfully outdated technique of indicating a quick rise to fame by presenting quickly-revolving newspapers that stop twirling long enough to exhibit a banner headline, and the verdict must be: technical naivete...
...marginal offenders to America's jails today--were out to reverse that decision. A higher court recently recommended that Milligan be sent to maximum security prison where he and his tattered family would be responsible for providing for his desperately needed psychiatric care. And shortly after the "not guilty" verdict, the Ohio state legislature passed what legislators frankly called "the Milligan law." That unfortunate statute, approved by shortsighted politicians watching opinion surveys and not paying attention to the rights of the mentally ill, severely limits mental illness pleas in criminal cases. If the statute stands, dozens of Billy Milligans--with...
...painting his terrifying portrait of the fight waged on behalf of Milligan by lawyers and mental health experts to get him special treatment and a "not guilty" verdict, Keyes, unfortunately, downplays larger issues. Chief among these are the extent to which psychiatric problems should be allowed to change verdicts and the timeless dilemma of how to prevent judges and politicians from ignoring individual rights for their own aggrandizement or ambition. This is his principal flaw in an otherwise excellently researched and explained study. Keyes focuses heavily on Milligan's psychological composition and how it developed into a condition that spurred...