Word: containers
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...audiocassettes unquestionably contain material embarrassing to the FBI and awkward for the prosecution in both the bombing trial under way in Manhattan and the related case alleging a massive conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks and assassinate public officials. Says William Kunstler, a defense attorney in the second case: "The FBI never knew they were being taped, so they said very careless things -- how the informant was to conduct himself, how far he could go and how to entice them. This is probably the only case since entrapment became a defense where you have the law-enforcement agents...
...most extreme outcome, the defense in the World Trade Center case could secure a mistrial on the basis that Salem's tapes contain potentially helpful evidence and should have been handed over months ago instead of last week, after excerpts and summaries appeared in the press. Prosecutors have taken weeks to establish how heinous the bombing was; last week the case reached its 58th witness without any testimony directly linking the defendants to the bomb. This strategy could be blunted if the jury comes to believe that the U.S. government had the opportunity to forestall the bombing. While that would...
...replica of the original. This is far beyond the reach of today's science. There is a vast difference between cloning an embryo that is made up of immature, undifferentiated cells and cloning adult cells that have already committed themselves to becoming skin or bone or blood. All cells contain within their DNA the information required to reproduce the entire organism, but in adult cells access to parts of that information has somehow been switched off. Scientists do not yet know how to switch it back...
...unclear if Packwood's diaries are primarily private musings or notations about his public life, like the journals of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Even if Packwood's diaries contain a considerable number of personal entries, some scholars argue, the writings are not automatically protected. "You have to show some constitutional immunity, some privilege against self-incrimination or free speech or freedom of association," says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. "As a general proposition, a court can subpoena records that contain reference to criminal conduct." Such legalistic caveats cannot fail to crimp...
...bombshell speech on the Senate floor, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood declared that the ethics committee investigating him on charges of sexual misconduct should not subpoena his diaries -- because that would raise serious privacy issues and because the diaries contain accounts of the amorous affairs of other members. In a blistering counterattack, the committee declared it needed the diaries to look into possible crimes unrelated to the harassment accusations. A flustered Senate considers whether to seek enforcement of the subpoena this week...