A circumstantial case: low-tech typewriter may help convict unabomber suspect
Article Abstract:
Powerful circumstantial evidence, including the typewriter believed used to write the Unabomber manifesto, may lead Theodore J. Kaczynski to enter a plea agreement to avoid the death penalty. Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation have also found bomb-making materials and other evidence in Kaczynski's remote cabin linking him to a 17-year spree of 16 mail bomb attacks that killed three and injured 23 others. Kaczynski's mental state and the relatively low number of victims killed weigh against the penalty.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Hardly hardball; prosecutors in most of 22 states studied are not using three-strikes laws against repeat offenders
Article Abstract:
A study by the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy showed prosecutorial reluctance to use the three-strikes laws. Several states have not issued any sentences under these laws, and other states resort to them rarely. The only exception is California, which has issued 15,000 such sentences. This prosecutorial reluctance can be ascribed to reasons ranging from a desire for fairness to a habit of using other tough ways of sentencing. Sometimes the three-strikes laws are used as a threat in plea bargaining.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: EPA targets 'environmental racism.' (part 1) Tax treatment of cleanup costs at issue. Creativity helps companies cut penalties
- Abstracts: Inmate litigation. Switching priorities: elevating the status of tort claims in bankruptcy in pursuit of optimal deterrence
- Abstracts: A matter of full faith: legislators scramble to bar recognition of gay marriages. Judge gets tough in fungicide trials
- Abstracts: Applying adequate protection payments from postpetition rents: do they reduce the debt? Local bankruptcy court rules and procedures: needed relief for the national practitioner
- Abstracts: Software publishers take interest in UCC: industry wants revisions to reflect specific needs, permit liability disclaimers