Word: bedford
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CONVICTED. John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, two of the six men charged with gang-raping a 21-year-old woman on a New Bedford, Mass., barroom pool table in March 1983; in Fall River, Mass. Two other defendants were acquitted at last week's trial; the final two, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28, were found guilty on March...
...cover the trial-have kept their reportage generally restrained. But an interview with Defendant Victor Raposo in the Boston Herald has caused a ruckus in and out of court. When Reporter John Impemba questioned Raposo for three hours last August, he worked for the Standard-Times in New Bedford, which declined to publish the story. In February, Impemba was hired by the Herald, and within a week the story was splashed on Page One. Standard-Times Editor James Ragsdale accused Impemba of "journalistic thievery," and Bristol County District Attorney Ronald Pina won a court order that could force Impemba...
...defense strategies that portray her as a ready partner. Says Stephanie Roth of New York Women Against Rape: "Going through a rape trial can be like going through a rape again.'' Many attorneys and social activists claim that the intense national focus on the New Bedford trial has discouraged women from pursuing rape charges. Says Philadelphia Judge Lisa Richette: "This woman is being subjected to vivisection. She is just being torn apart...
...recognition of such arguments, a number of newspapers and TV and radio stations decided, before the trial began, not to carry the name of the alleged victim. But Rhode Island's Colony Communications, which is supplying video coverage to CNN and to New Bedford-area cable channels, aired the name because, an executive said, the company lacked the technical ability to bleep it out when it arose in testimony. As a result, the Fall River Herald-News and the Providence Journal and Bulletin in Rhode Island published it. Said the Providence papers' Executive Editor, Charles Hauser: "Once...