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...Athenian criminal proceedings, ordinary citizens presented the charges, and the 500-man juries voted twice: first on guilt or innocence, and then (if the verdict was guilty) on the penalty. Socrates' speeches at his trial, as recorded in Plato's Apology, still have the magic to move readers, but they clearly failed to persuade his contemporaries. Stone calculates that the votes were 280 to 220 for the guilty verdict, 360 to 140 for the death penalty...
According to the Apology, Socrates admitted that a guilty verdict "was not a surprise." Why so? Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...
...limelight, doesn't like to have that judgment challenged. Having once buried Gary Hart politically, first with its coverage of the Donna Rice weekend, then with editorials pronouncing him too flawed in character to be President, the press now finds itself having to await the electorate's verdict...
Aside from the response of outspoken spectators, reaction to last week's verdict was restrained, almost relieved, because the black community had feared that the defendants would, like Goetz, be acquitted of all major charges. As it turned out, however, three youths face up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter: Jon Lester, 18, Scott Kern, 18, and Jason Ladone, 17. Many of those involved in the trial felt that at least a measure of justice had been meted out. Said Jean Griffith: "God, in the end, did what was right...
...York, Texas Cheesecake to, of all places, New York, New York, hoping to find retail outlets. Baked back home, this lemon- and vanilla-flavored cake is based on a recipe Dunsavage's mother developed after being beguiled by the original on a trip to the Big Apple. The verdict from this aficionado of the genre: not bad, but a bit too sweet and creamy to fool connoisseurs...