Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even creation scientists concede that the verdict about the "man prints" has been convincingly handed down. "As a scientist, I am willing to be wrong if I am wrong," says John D. Morris, associate professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. His book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them and a creationist movie on the same subject have been withdrawn from circulation...
...Bulow was convicted of trying to kill his wife two times. Then he called in Dershowitz to appeal the verdict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. With his hot shot team of lawyers and law students, Dershowitz argued that von Bulow's initial trial had been unfair because defense attorneys had not been given access to certain evidence. Dershowitz also argued that the use of a private investigator to uncover evidence for prosecution could imperil people's liberty from unwarranted searches of their private property. He won on the first argument but not on the second...
...vents were put in place by January 1981. Then they were to be installed by July 1982. Finally, the verdict changed to "necessary but unfeasible." The vents, just like dozens of other faulty parts, were never repaired...
...defendant on trial for a crime that carries the death penalty is entitled to have prospective jurors questioned about possible racial bias if the charges concern an interracial crime. In the 1979 Virginia murder trial of Willie Lloyd Turner, the judge refused to ask potential jurors whether their verdict would be influenced by the fact that the defendant was black and the victim white. The court's new rule is necessary, Justice White said, because "the risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence...
Blacks stage a general strike in South Africa. Austrians cast a verdict on the past. Church and state in Nicaragua...