Court voids mandatory death penalty for officer killing
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down Louisiana’s law mandating the death penalty for killing a police officer, saying juries must have leeway to consider mitigating circumstances. The ruling cited Roberts’s 19-year-old age as a potential life-imprisonment factor and left undecided whether similar mandates in other contexts are valid.
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Supreme Court
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North Carolina
New York
California
Harry Roberts
New Orleans
Dennis McInerney
Warren Burger
William Rehnquist
Byron White
Harry Blackmun
William J. Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Lewis F Powell Jr
Potter Stewart
John Paul Stevens
Roberts
Supreme Court rulings reshape death penalty and federal powers
The court's majority upheld the death penalty for murder while concurring opinions stressed police protection needs. It also left open rulings on rape penalties and Congress versus executive actions. Additional decisions cover welfare eligibility for unwed mothers, veteran pension credits, civil service hearings, felon firearm possession, House electoral disputes, prosecutorial leverage in pleas, and customs mail seizures.
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Weather and brief news highlights from Lincoln paper
Inside items note a cloudy mild forecast for tonight and a warm Tuesday with a high near 85. The House assassination committee has found little new evidence on Kennedy and King deaths. Editorial calls Cuba ties a realism, Obray cites cancer contract probe, and railroad funding extension urged.
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Select Committee
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Final Watergate sentence set for Mitchell and Haldeman
UPI reports District Judge John Sirica ordered John Mitchell and H. R. Haldeman to begin prison terms of 30 months to eight years for obstructing justice conspiracy and perjury in the Watergate cover up. They have until June 22 to settle personal affairs before reporting to the DC marshal.
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UPI
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H. R. Haldeman
John Sirica
Richard Nixon
America
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District of Columbia
John Ehrlichman
Supreme Court
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Lompoc
Calif
Los Angeles
Allenwood
Pennsylvania
High Court
Double no-hitter O'Connor no-hits Holmes Lake twice
John O'Connor Jr. pitched a no-hitter for Lincoln American Legion midget baseball against Waverly then matched it with a second no-hitter against Beatrice. He nearly drowned at Holmes Lake during a two-family picnic, was revived, transported to Bryan Memorial Hospital in fair condition, and expressed eagerness to pitch again.
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Dan Peder
John O'Connor Jr
Waverly
Lincoln American Legion
O Connor
Beatrice
O'Connor
Holmes Lake
O'Connors
Sandalwood
Jim Staffords
Burleson
Tex
John O'Connor
Ace Pitcher
John
Young O'Connor
Jim Stafford
Bryan Memorial Hospital
Carol O'Connor
Bryan
John Sr
Lincoln
Chicago
Nebraska income tax to rise retroactively in 1977 plan
Nebraska plans a retroactive tax jump for 1977 with the rate likely at 18 or 19 percent of federal liability. The State Board of Equalization will raise the sales tax to 3.4 percent effective July 1 to fund school aid, while income tax changes reflect federal base reductions.
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William Ki. Peters II
Exon
Congress
Peters
State Revenue Dept
Fxon
Jerome Warner
Waverly
Lincoln weighs energy saving plans citywide
Lincoln officials report five of the state energy conservation plan measures are already underway city departments will appoint energy coordinators to cut consumption by 10 percent and officials will discuss expansion at a Wednesday meeting.
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Lincoln
Helen Booslais
City Hall
Debt per American would take nearly three years of work
The Commerce Department says total U S public and private debt rose to 3.4 trillion in 1976 or about 15 400 per person. Private debt climbed 10 5 while public debt surged 15 6 to 515 billion as state and local debt rose 61 percent amid higher federal spending and a recovering economy.
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UPI
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