Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a Manhattan jury found Steinberg guilty of first-degree manslaughter, which carries a prison term of 8 1/3 to 25 years. Though the jurors emerged from eight days of deliberation with plans for a reunion, they reached their compromise verdict only after some heated quarrels. Most of them entered the jury room believing Steinberg was guilty. Some wanted to convict him on the more serious charge of second-degree murder. But four holdouts were convinced that it was Nussbaum who caused the brain injuries that killed Lisa, a claim raised by Steinberg's attorneys late...
Steinberg's lawyers plan to appeal the verdict, arguing that Acting State Supreme Court Judge Harold Rothwax improperly instructed the jurors on the meaning of intent. They also contend that he should not have permitted the jurors to view a videotape made shortly after Nussbaum's arrest showing her covered with scars, bruises and ulcerations...
...attention of city officials. Neighbors and adults at school who noticed her bruises never reported their suspicions. During Steinberg's trial, child-abuse hot lines recorded a flood of calls in the New York City area, where two or three children are beaten to death every week. After the verdict, bills were introduced in the New York state legislature to toughen penalties for child abuse...
...controversy surrounding Core lotteries had alienated students in practically every year and garnered more headlines in the Crimson than the changes in the freshman housing lottery. Unfortunately, to students hoping to enroll in a number of popular Core courses, this news was just as grim as the housing verdict was to freshmen...
...federal judge's verdict is expected shortly in the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66, former associate professor of industrial marketing, who charges she was denied tenure at the B-School in 1983 because she is a woman. Jackson is suing the University and Business School Dean John H. McArthur for a tenured post at the school, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income...