Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urged "doing away with Miranda," the 1966 ruling that criminal suspects must be advised of their right not to answer questions, and he has denounced the 1961 Mapp vs. Ohio verdict blocking the use in a trial of illegally seized evidence. Such judgments aid only the guilty, he said, insisting, "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime...
Meese has denigrated the Dred Scott and Plessy opinions and has cheered the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education verdict, whose broad result was to end legal segregation. In Brown, said Meese, the court "was restoring the original principle of the Constitution to constitutional law." Yet the Brown decision $ rests primarily on an interpretation, not a strict reading, of the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. And it was attacked by segregationists at the time as social engineering that went against the intentions of the amendment's framers...
...Harriman "the world's richest cheapskate." That was perhaps the mildest of the many epithets he had to endure. At various times he was dubbed a playboy by the press, a traitor to his class by Wall Street and a Communist sympathizer by the Republican right. In history's verdict, he will be better remembered as a statesman who served his country with distinction...
Hijackers Ibrahim Fatyer Abdelatif, 20, and Ahmad Marrouf al Assadi, 24, were sentenced respectively to 24 years and two months and 15 years and two months. Assadi cooperated with authorities and was not present when the verdict was read...
Molqi, Abdelatif and two other defendants responded to the verdict by shouting in Arabic, "Long live Palestine!" "Long live Italian justice!" and "Long live [PLO Chairman Yasser] Arafat!" A courtroom interpreter translated their shouts...