Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal can be more clearly understood by using the analogy of a court of law, says Etzioni. In making decisions, several computers would contribute evidence supporting one point of view, while others would offer conflicting arguments. Through their intercommunication, the computers would together be able to arrive at a "verdict" which they could not have obtained separately...
...days from opening argument to final verdict, the espionage trial was the longest in British history. From the viewpoint of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, it was also a disaster. After more than a week of deliberation, a London jury last week acquitted two British servicemen accused of leading a Mediterranean spy operation that supposedly passed British and NATO military secrets to the Soviet Union. A week earlier, the same jury had acquitted five others charged with membership in the same purported ring. Both times, the panel spurned a prosecution case based largely on confessions that were, according...
...that a bailiff, Al Burroughs Jr., had attempted to influence the panel during the 6 1/2 days it was sequestered. At least one juror reportedly changed his vote to guilty on one count after Burroughs informed him that the panel was not allowed to end its deliberations without a verdict. After rescinding his resignation, Hedgecock said he hoped there would be no third trial...
...providing classified information to the press rather than to a foreign power. "This will have a chilling effect on public discussion of important military matters," said Tony Rood, a member of Morison's defense team. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow disagreed. But he said he does hope the verdict will cut off leaks at their source: Government employees...
...armed forces Chief of Staff and a longtime Marcos associate. Ver and 25 other defendants are charged with complicity in Aquino's murder. As their eight-month trial entered its final stages last week, Ver submitted a 141-page memorandum asking for acquittal. The court must return a verdict within 90 days. Though Ver has been suspended from his post since October 1984, Marcos has said that he will reinstate him if he is cleared...