Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athenian criminal proceedings, ordinary citizens presented the charges, and the 500-man juries voted twice: first on guilt or innocence, and then (if the verdict was guilty) on the penalty. Socrates' speeches at his trial, as recorded in Plato's Apology, still have the magic to move readers, but they clearly failed to persuade his contemporaries. Stone calculates that the votes were 280 to 220 for the guilty verdict, 360 to 140 for the death penalty...
...limelight, doesn't like to have that judgment challenged. Having once buried Gary Hart politically, first with its coverage of the Donna Rice weekend, then with editorials pronouncing him too flawed in character to be President, the press now finds itself having to await the electorate's verdict...
...Murderers! Murderers!" yelled an enraged black spectator at the trial in New York City as the jury foreman announced the verdict. Two white teenagers, charged with chasing a black man out of their Howard Beach neighborhood to his death on a freeway, had been acquitted of murder and convicted, along with a third youth, on the lesser charge of manslaughter. A fourth had been found innocent of all charges. Though the gray decision satisfied the victim's mother, it could not dispel all the passions that have arisen among both blacks and whites since the tragedy one year ago made...
Aside from the response of outspoken spectators, reaction to last week's verdict was restrained, almost relieved, because the black community had feared that the defendants would, like Goetz, be acquitted of all major charges. As it turned out, however, three youths face up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter: Jon Lester, 18, Scott Kern, 18, and Jason Ladone, 17. Many of those involved in the trial felt that at least a measure of justice had been meted out. Said Jean Griffith: "God, in the end, did what was right...
...York, Texas Cheesecake to, of all places, New York, New York, hoping to find retail outlets. Baked back home, this lemon- and vanilla-flavored cake is based on a recipe Dunsavage's mother developed after being beguiled by the original on a trip to the Big Apple. The verdict from this aficionado of the genre: not bad, but a bit too sweet and creamy to fool connoisseurs...