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...accused of kissing women," he said. "Not drugging, not robbing. Kissing." That in vited McConnell to respond, "These were not merely stolen kisses" but rather "physical coercion" directed primarily at women who depended on Packwood for their livelihood. Packwood's eleventh-hour demand for public hearings also earned the contempt of the panel, which noted he had waived his right to request a public airing and opposed Boxer's campaign to force the hearings. "The one who deliberately abused the process now wants to manipulate it to his advantage," said McConnell. "That won't wash...
...Mark Fuhrman tapes, Johnnie Cochran let his frustrations out. In a tense exchange, the lawyer angrily asked that Ito clarify and reconsider his ruling. "With all due respect, there are some parts that are incoherent," the Simpson defense attorney said. Huh? "Cochran is really on the edge of contempt," reports James Willwerth from the trial. "Ito's decision really angered him -- he has lost his normal sweet-talking, mildly blustery salesman's pose. But you don't call a sitting judge's writing's incoherent." Testimony in the trial was canceled for another day as defense lawyers tried to find...
...when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person in America who's proud of your conduct...
...took 11 days in jail, the threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...
Several men and women who stopped to argue withthe protesters expressed contempt for some oftheir messages...