Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white Miami was shocked by the McDuffie trial verdict and the subsequent rioting, it was only because previous warnings had been ignored. As early as March 1979, Athalie Range, a black civic leader, declared starkly: "Miami is bleeding to death. Hate is spelled in capital letters all over this county." When no action was taken in the shooting of young Heath, Garth C. Reeves, editor of the Miami Times, a black weekly, predicted on May 1: "Something terrible is waiting to happen in Dade County...
...phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but stressed that the verdict is still out. "The ball is in the federalists' court," he said in French, words received by his supporters with a chorus of catcalls. The loss in the plebiscite was a watershed; but it did not, to quote Churchill, mark the beginning of the end--it signalled...
...What you got here," said one black, "-you could call this verdict the straw that broke the camel's back. There wasn't no justice for the black people. They shoved everything down our throats. So now even the kids are out." Said a black educator: "They wanted to strike at anything white...
...trial had lasted seven weeks, but the jury took only two hours and 45 minutes to acquit the defendants on all 13 counts, ranging from second-degree murder to tampering with evidence. Said McDuffie's sister Dorothy, "We despise the verdict. We hate it." The U.S. Justice Department, too, was appalled. It said it would press for indictments of the ex-police for civil rights violations...
Whomever the jury believes, there are certain to be reverberations. Amy has been suspended from racing. New York State racing officials have indicated that, regardless of the verdict, each of the jockeys mentioned at the trial faces disciplinary hearings and may lose his license. At stake is the integrity of racing in the sport's premier state. Amy asserted that he and his friends in the jocks' dressing room discussed fixing races "twice a week" during 1974 and 1975. If this is true, the best of racing will be proved no better than the worst...