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...suffered some personnel problems under Poindexter, notably the loss to the State Department of Jack Matlock, a respected Kremlinologist. Another highly regarded key aide, Donald Fortier, has been seriously ill and was belatedly replaced last week by Alton Keel, an experienced bureaucrat who most recently excelled as the executive director of the commission that investigated the Challenger disaster. Overall, however, most observers feel that Poindexter has strengthened the staff since taking charge...
Defense Attorney Alton Maddox contended that the attempted robbery never took place. The prosecution, Maddox charged, was trying to frame Jonah Perry to avoid murder charges against Van Houten, who in two years as a policeman had an unblemished record. Said Maddox: "The fact that you have a badge and a gun does not allow you to do everything under the sun, and somebody had better send that message to the New York police department...
...Alton R. Dahlstrom Rossland...
...Columnist Anthony Lewis, who is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, argued, "The vindication of one's good name does not require colossal verdicts. Damages awarded without effective limit in libel may violate the First Amendment." The concern is more than theoretical: a libel suit against the Alton Telegraph (circ. 137,000) in Illinois forced ? the 148-year-old newspaper into bankruptcy court in 1981 and nearly resulted in its closing. Some two dozen states prohibit publications from buying insurance against punitive damages. Explains Conference Chairman Richard Winfield, a New York City attorney: "These states take the position...
...appeal was brought by Robert Alton Harris, a Californian sentenced to die in 1979 after kidnaping and killing two teenagers, then using their car for a bank robbery. After eleven hearings, Harris finally persuaded a federal appeals court that he should not be executed until the California Supreme Court compared his sentence with those of others convicted of similar crimes in the state...