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...state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton shooting took place a year and a half ago, has no investigators to interview witnesses or do any other legal legwork. The prosecutor must assent before a private lawyer can actually argue a criminal case in court, but some are willing just to make a statement of the case at the beginning of the trial and turn the rest over to the lawyer hired by the victim's family. Kentucky Attorney General Robert Stephens sees...
...Salter's side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. When Lord Copper was right he said, 'Definitely, Lord Copper'; when he was wrong, 'Up to a point...
...department's assent has been given," Kilson said. He said the decision had been made at the department's regular meeting the first week of January, though he added he had not attended the meeting...
...Murdoch break ranks? At first he was named by publishers as their negotiator-they wanted the Aussie out in the open where they could keep an eye on him. That role troubled Murdoch, especially after Theodore Kheel, the labor lawyer and supermediator, was called in by the unions, with assent from the News and the Times, to get negotiations moving when they seemed stalled. Murdoch saw Kheel less as an observer than an active arbiter, who might dictate terms inimical to the Post. "They put him out in front to take all the heat, then they cut him down from...
...place under a fresco of the baptism of Christ. The Camerlengo, his face wreathed in smiles, asked the ritual question: "Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?" Luciani at first replied, "May God forgive you for what you have done in my regard." Then he gave his assent, "Accepto," and announced the name he had chosen for himself as the new Pope: loannes Paulus. The choice immediately stirred pleased comments among the Cardinals...