Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During jury selection last month, nearly half of the group of prospective jurors indicated we had been burglarized," he recalls. "Many could barely mask their impatience with the criminal justice system. After watching them, the accused burglar evidently felt he had little chance of a sympathetic verdict. He changed his plea to guilty...
...church duties after admitting to a "special relationship" with divorced Churchworker Di Scott, 30. Boesak stated, however, that contrary to newspaper reports, he had not had an extramarital affair with Scott, which would be a violation of South Africa's Immorality Act because Scott is white. After the verdict, Boesak declared that the charges against him were a "desperate attempt by the government to get me out of circulation." Said he: "I have always known of my differences with people in the church, but I had no idea that there was so much hatred and jealousy...
...verdict stands, the money will go to Micro/Vest, a California-based investor group led by John Martin-Musumeci, a former ComputerLand employee. Formed in 1981, Micro/Vest paid Marriner $1.9 million for Millard's note, before ComputerLand shares zoomed in value. Marriner sold to avoid a legal battle after Millard disputed its claim to ComputerLand stock...
...basement lounge in St. John's Lutheran Church in McCandless, Pa. Ten clergy and five laity met last week around tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe for the second ecclesiastical trial in the history of the 23-year-old, 3 million-member Lutheran Church in America. Their verdict: the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, ex-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, Pa., was to be defrocked...
After the verdict, Roth charged that his bishop was "supporting corporate attacks." Bishop May contends, however, that many Lutheran ministers around the U.S. have joined protest marches or spoken out against social injustice without interference from the church. Says May: "There's no problem because they are not dividing and destroying their parishes...