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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june court says jury misled vacates death sentence Washington up the supreme citing the awesome responsibility of jurors in capital punish ment tuesday threw put the death sentence of a Mississippi Man because his jury was misled by the pros the in a 53 vacated the death sen tence of Bobby who has been on Mississipp Pis death Row since 1981 for the 1980 murder of Eliza Beth Faulkner during the robbery of a country the in an opinion written by Justice Thurgood said the death sentence was unfair because the jury that sentenced Caldwell was led to believe their Deci Sion on his sentence would not necessarily determine his during closing an assistant District attorney told the your decision is not the final your Job is Caldwell lawyers objected to the comment at the but were overruled by the trial like Many Mississippi conducts capital punish ment trials in two the first to determine guilt or innocence and the second to decide the if the sentence is it is automatically reviewed by the state supreme marshal a foe of All capital punishment said the prosecutors comment diminished the responsibility of the supreme court Roundup jury and might have made jurors More willing to impose a death in other actions the court ruled with Marshall and Justice Lewis Powell not that a cooperative engaged in wholesaling goods does not violate Federal antitrust Laws by expel Ling one of its ruled with Marshall not that Stock traders who engage in fraud by persuading people to buy Stock through false and incomplete information cannot be shielded from damage suits by those who purchased even if the purchasers were aware the information was illegal inside in the Mississippi Marshall this court has always premised its capital punishment decisions on the Assumption that a capital sentencing jury recognizes the Gravity of its task and proceeds with the appropriate awareness of its truly awesome the prosecutors argument in the Caldwell mar shall sought to give the jury a View of its role in the capital sentencing procedure that was fundamentally in compatible with the eighth amendments heightened need for reliability that death is the appropriate chief Justice Warren Burger and justices William Rehnquist and Byron White where a neighbourhood used to be a photo an expanse of dirt is All that remains of stroked by fire May 13 when police several blocks of a residential neighbor dropped a bomb on a fortified Row House Hood in West Philadelphia which was reoccupied by members of the Radical group a fire broke out and destroyed the same location for the displaced Resi 61 Homes in the area before it could be the dwellings Are expected to be new houses Are to be built on ready by us disciplines 40 in Payfor grades scheme los Angeles a the univer sity of Southern California has expelled 17 suspended six and Frozen the Aca Demic records of 17 others for alleged involvement in a Payfor grades according to a University for about three some students allegedly have paid to have their grades changed from is and is to better James the vice president for student said the 17 students who had their records put on permanent making them unavailable to them or other failed to respond to requests to attend administrative Dennis charges against two students were Dis missed because of insufficient the scheme was uncovered in january 1984 by an internal he the University investigation widened a year later when us officials received a report from the drug enforcement adminis and the los Angeles county District attorneys office joined the earlier this the los Angeles quoting a source close to the District attorneys said the investigation was focusing on a group of students suspected of Selling degrees As Well As higher but Dennis said monday that uses 14month investigation found no proof that degrees were the times said students collected Money from other students for Grade then paid a former us who would buy computer passwords from workers in the records and registration students Selling higher grades would change Tran scripts themselves or pay employees with or cocaine to make the paper Dea agents in arrested a us student there on cocaine charges and passed on to the District attorneys office the students allegations that degrees were for Sale at Dennis said he understands that investigators in the District attorneys office Are checking on two former employees of the records and registration one of the employees left us voluntarily before the University investigation and the other was fired in june Dennis he refused to identify the citing the state Dennis would not say How much students typically paid for a higher students expelled or suspended have the right to Appeal to the  
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