Word: verdicts
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...that's only half the story, for King is never niggardly when it comes to plotting. Working us toward the fairly easy verdict of justifiable homicide in Joe's death, King must also relieve us of our rather trumped-up suspicions about Dolores' role in the death of Mrs. Donovan and arrange a just reward for the years of misery Dolores has endured...
...cover the amounts of their loans-had folded and settled 45 cases out of court for $4.1 million. By Beasley standards they got off light: if it had gone to the Barbour County jury, God knows the size of the wheelbarrow they would have needed to haul away the verdict money...
...happen if Social Security endures in something like its present form. Should it? Though it's anathema to most politicians to say so, among the scholars and policy analysts who study the budget charts and chew their nails in suspense as the baby boomers inch toward later life, the verdict is just about unanimous: as Social Security nears its 60th birthday, it is ripe for retirement...
...only recently that the Texas prosecutors had changed their theory of who was directly responsible for the gunshot that murdered Urdiales. To say that I found that news troubling would be a great understatement. At Jacobs' trial, it required considerable soul-searching before I could confidently vote for the verdict and sentence of death that the jury rendered. The news of Jacobs' execution required me to repeat that process. Yet having now done so, I am again satisfied that Jacobs' verdict and sentence of death were appropriate. Jacobs was sentenced to death because, in the unanimous opinion of the jury...
...dramatic testimony that some say could compromise a guilty verdict, a friend ofO.J. Simpsonsaid that a day after the death of Nicole, O.J. told him he had dreamt of killing her. Former police officer Ronald Shipp testified that Simpson "jokingly said, "To be honest, Shipp, I've had some dreams of killing her." Shipp also said that initially he'd withheld this information from lawyers on both sides, but later called prosecutors because "ever since I had that conversation, it was just eating me up." During cross-examination, defense attorney Carl Douglas repeatedly tried to portray Shipp, an aspiring actor...