Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's legal system over a year and a half to take Hinckley at his word, and decide that his psychosis was more than just the imagined mask of a calculating evader of justice. Over a fifteen month period-- from the shooting spree of March 1981 to the June verdict of the following year--Hinckley was to emerge as the enigmatic author and protagonist of what he himself called "my melodrama...
...informed need to preserve conceptions of human will, avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope of the defense by limiting judgment to a defendant's criminal intent (mens rea is the proper legal term) at the moment of the crime...
...they shouted when Mass. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis called on Democrats to "accept the verdict" and "rally behind the winner...
...judging a TV political debate are of course different. Says one candid presidential aide: "Reagan delivered a couple of good one-liners, stayed close to the podium, looked alert and had a better camera angle. The conclusion is that Reagan won the debate." The adviser's own verdict is somewhat different: "The most interesting thing is how little these debates tell us about which candidate would be the best President...
...issue of College ties to the clubs has preoccupied both the CCL and College officials, especially Epps, for nearly a year. The CCL failed to take any definitive action at its first meeting last week because its new members wanted time to completely assess the situation. But the verdict is in; the clubs' request for "more time" to discuss the issue is merely a delaying tactic. Next Monday--by which time CCL members plan to have met with all the club presidents--is late enough to resolve the conflict. We urge both groups to take quick and final action...