Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several suspected drug deals at one club, a reported attack by a first-year who became drunk while visiting a club, repeated reports of sexual harassment, a complaint about lewd sexual acts performed by hired women and a complaint from a parent who said her son had been the victim of hazing by a club...
DENVER: Asserting that he does not want Timothy McVeigh?s sentencing hearing to turn into ?some kind of lynching,? Judge Richard Matsch blocked the prosecution's plan to introduce some highly emotional material, including wedding photographs of victims and a father?s poem about his dead child. Arguments centered on the federal Victims Rights Act, which allows crime victims to attend trials and testify about the crime's impact. The act was hastily shoved through Congress in March in response to Matsch's refusal to allow anyone who attended the trial to testify during its criminal phase. Though a federal...
Darren Kavinoky, a lawyer who is no longer part of Markhasev's defense but claims to remain close to the suspect's family, says the Ukrainian emigre may find it impossible to enlist--much less afford--a top-notch defense, especially in a town where the victim's father is not only beloved but also powerful. Earlier in the case, Kavinoky tried to beef up Markhasev's defense team, approaching prominent law firms. None were willing to help. For example, says Kavinoky, "the message came through Robert Shapiro's office that no prominent attorney in this town will take this...
...strange tale of First Lieut. Kelly Flinn has been packaged as a passion play about the man she loved and the job she lost as a result. She has been cast as a victim by a culture that exalts love first and then negotiates honor and obedience. But the military inverts the scale and ranks duty above all else, a marriage under crossed swords. The Flinn case is less a struggle between two people than a conflict between two codes of conduct. The facts weren't much in dispute, only what to make of them...
...overwhelmed. "How could I compete with her?" the wife wrote. "She had power, both as an officer and academy graduate. She also had special status as the first female B-52 pilot." Clearly frustrated, Gayla continued, "I am tired of Lieut. Flinn acting as if she is the victim, when she is the one who committed the crimes." Flinn last weekend had a response. She told TIME, "Airman Zigo is not a victim of me, but she is a victim of Marc...