1. A jury of journalists recommended that he get it, but the Pulitzer advisory board, a higher-ranking body, said no. 2. A Mobile County grand jury has recommended the mayor, city council and most of the water and sewer board be removed from office for incompetence and neglect. 3. A jury typically would recommend sentencing, and a judge would impose it. 4. But neither jury recommended the death sentence, which legal observers in Texas found unusual. 5. Cornyn, in pressing for a new sentencing hearing, expressed confidence that a jury would again recommend that Saldano be executed. 6. District Attorney Gil Garcetti told reporters that even though the jury did not recommend the maximum penalty, justice was served. 7. He also says a judge should determine if the defendant is mentally retarded after a jury recommends death. 8. The court said the law was unfair because it mandated that juries recommend death when mitigating and aggravating circumstances were equal. 9. The jury also recommended a probated six-month jail term for solicitation of prostitution. 10. The jury may recommend sentences of life with the possibility of parole, life without the possibility of parole or death by injection. |