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The New York Times attributes the increasing number of A plusses and the decrease in C's and D's to "lenient professors and students who badger them for higher grades."
(Pollard's perfervid supporters repeat these canards despite all evidence: Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told me that prosecutors "promised they would be very lenient on him ...
Could scans showing diminished impulse control—a function controlled by several regions of the brain, including the striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—be used to support more lenient sentencing, or even acquit a defendant, because he couldn't control his violent impulses?
LeBow's hope, which ultimately proved false, was that RJR investors would welcome a takeover if it would allow RJR to share in Liggett's lenient settlement.
An aggressive prosecutor offers to purchase that information with a lenient sentencing recommendation.