Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first it seems odd that something so irrelevent to the facts of the case would take up the not-so-valuable time of commentators on this month's not guilty verdict for Goetz. Weren't there enough actual problems raised by the case--questions of the applicability of confessions, and the bounds of self-defense--without dealing with the larger, tangential issues of racism? While the facts are crucial, there are also good reasons why critics have focussed on the hypothetical...
...verdict in the Goetz case does present an example of how subtle racism--the kind that is captured in statistical surveys--can play itself out in a tangible way. When courts consider the racially-linked paranoia of a crime victim, race becomes an issue. When courts indulge this paranoia, the verdict has aspects of race...
...country listened in amazement to the court proceedings on the radio. By the end, says a Western diplomat, the former emperor had been "demythologized" in the eyes of his countrymen. Last week a court again found him guilty and reimposed the death sentence. Bokassa has appealed the verdict...
...dozy trial came just after the jury began deliberating. One juror apparently suffered an attack of panic; she locked herself in a bathroom chanting, "The Lord is my shepherd." Judge Collins rejected appeals by several defendants to declare a mistrial. He seated an alternate juror, who concurred in the verdict of acquittal...
...Supreme Court approves pretrial detention, meaning no bail for dangerous defendants. -- A verdict in the Landis case...