Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspiring to spy for the Soviet Union. And two years later in June. 1953, the Rosenbergs went to the electric chair in Sing-Sing prison. But that was not to be the end of the debate over the Rosenbergs. Questions linger today about not only the verdict but also the nature of the trial, the justice of the death sentence, even the significance of the information (on the construction and composition of the atomic bomb) which the Rosenbergs allegedly were engaged in transferring to the Russians...
That was how the University of Michigan started off its terse summary of the verdict on the Salk polio vaccine. The reading of the report itself took longer, and the setting in the university's Rickham auditorium was elaborate. Under the klieg lights set up for TV and newsreel cameras, surrounded by microphones and 150 reporters, sat the unquestioned hero of the occasion: Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, 40, the determined, youthful-looking virologist who for five years had battled in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory to lick polio. Next to him sat the University of Michigan...
...murdered Moscone and Milk. During White's controversial 1979 trial, his attorney pursued the so-called Twinkies defense, arguing that White committed his crimes in a "diminished mental capacity" caused in part by eating too much junk food. A lenient jury bought the line and produced a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder. Under California's determinant sentencing law, that judgment carried a maximum term of seven years and eight months. With time off for good behavior, that makes White eligible for parole from Soledad prison beginning next Jan. 6, after he will have served five years...
...have no respect for the laws, the verdict or the sentence. We will continue to maintain our position as freedom fighters." With that defiant statement, three defendants in the Brink's robbery case shrugged off their conviction last week in Goshen, N.Y., on 21 counts of murder and armed robbery...
...three radical killers, David Gilbert, Judith Clark and Kuwasi Balagoon, did not even bother to attend the reading of the verdict, which found them guilty of killing a Brink's guard and two police officers during a $1.6 million robbery in New York's Rockland County. Gilbert tried to turn his day of reckoning into a celebration by marrying Weather Underground Radical Kathy Boudin. After the brief ceremony, conducted by a jail chaplain and sealed by a kiss, the two were hauled off to separate cells. Boudin and another Brink's suspect, Samuel Brown, will begin their...