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...Propulsion Laboratory, in the foothills near Pasadena, who designed the spacecraft and control its mission. They fear that U.S. ambitions in interplanetary space may be rapidly dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that had been eagerly sought by J.P.L., along with an unmanned probe to intercept Halley's comet when it returns in 1986. So far the U.S. has refused to authorize the tantalizing mission to the comet. Said J.P.L...
...real cause is overpayment of small claims. But the insurers clearly have a First Amendment right to influence legislation." Adds University of Illinois Professor Jeffrey O'Connell: "A court clampdown on advertising is a raw, brutal way of handling the problem. Plaintiffs' lawyers are adequately protected by voir dire [jury selection] procedure." Most analysts doubt the trial lawyers will succeed in muffling the insurers but see the lawyers' maneuvers as effective nonetheless. Says The Research Group's Gingerich: "The insurance companies and trade associations will have to be much more careful in representing the nature...
When it was time to go, she turned and beamed at the class. "Bonjour, ca va, au 'voir." She spoiled the dramatic exit, though, when she poked her head back in the door and grinned and waved. "So long, Crabby," she said...
Crucial Objection. The jury never even knew Clark had arrived to testify. Before they could file into the courtroom, Judge Hoffman excluded them so that Clark could be examined on voir dire, a procedure that permits a judge to determine the admissibility of a potential witness's testimony before he takes the stand. In the examination that followed, Hoffman sustained the Government's objections and refused to let Clark say what his answers would be to 14 of the 38 questions that Kunstler posed. Then the judge sustained the most crucial objection. Accepting the prosecutor's argument...
Death Verdict? To greater or lesser extent, all of these factors weighed in the Speck voir dire. For his part, State's Attorney William Martin, 30, took a cool approach. "Where the crime speaks for itself," he said, "it is not for us to seek the sympathy of the jurors." Though he was searching for the relatives of policemen, nurses and young girls, Martin mainly focused on reactions to the most important question: "Do you have any conscientious or religious objections to the death penalty...