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...Deena Whitfield, chair of the "No on 4" campaign and president of the League of Women's Voters of Massachusetts, says the law would restrict the choices of voters, by not allowing someone's name on the ballot if he or she had served their requisite terms...
Although candidates who have served too long to reappear on the ballot may still be elected by write-in vote, Whitfield says the new law would prohibit the write-in candidate from receiving a salary if elected...
...limits the information citizens receive and it will manipulate the ballot process," Whitfield says...
Thanks to the talk shows, Americans are increasingly familiar with the language of therapy and recovery -- with new syndromes, with the fragility of the psyche and with the painful ways the abused can become abusive. Nan Whitfield, a Los Angeles public defender, believes media coverage of abuse has raised juror interest in the motives and mind-set of the accused. "I think juries have always been interested in why something happened," she says. "Once the defendant crosses the threshold and does present that evidence ((of his victimization)), I do think the jurors' ears perk up and they become more interested...
...Whitfield scoffs at such so-called reforms. "It is the very narrow- mindedness of some prosecutors that is always the best edge for a defense," she says. "They think they can just come into court, put on their evidence, and that will be the end of the story. They stop there. Well, thank God, juries don't." Legal scholars say juries have always been unpredictable, refusing to bend to controls the authorities hope to impress on them. "The tradition is that juries are the ultimate arbiter of law, not judges and not the state," says Anthony D'Amato...