Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Independent Counsel James C. McKay said he found the verdict depressing because "I just hate to see someone get convicted of a felony. But we felt...
Deaver's prosecutor, Whitney North Seymour Jr., also refused the parallel appointment. Noting that last week's decision had invalidated the court appointment that is Seymour's sole source of authority, Deaver's lawyers quickly filed a motion to vacate the jury verdict and throw out the charges against their client, who faces a possible 15-year prison sentence. For Deaver, says Philip Lacovara, former counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, the court's decision is like the "arrival of the 7th Cavalry." But Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at Little Bighorn, and whether Deaver will...
...vanished there satisfied the OAS's requirements for hearing such cases, including that the petitioners must have exhausted all other avenues of recourse. Moreover, Honduras is one of the few countries that accept the court's jurisdiction. Last week Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo pledged to accept whatever verdict the court reaches...
...court's seven magistrates are not expected to reach a verdict until June. If they find Honduras guilty, they can issue a condemnation and order the government to pay reparations. "This case has the potential to depoliticize human rights," says Claudio Grossman, one of the lawyers involved in the prosecution. "Instead of making human rights a point of ideological discourse, it can be adjudicated...
According to the Apology, Socrates admitted that a guilty verdict "was not a surprise." Why so? Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...