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...deception went undetected until last May, when a team of accountants discovered a discrepancy in the department's records. An inquiry was launched that eventually developed into a full-scale investigation. As attention began to focus on Luisi, she hired Criminal Lawyer Ivan Fisher, whose clients have included Convict-Author Jack Henry Abbott...
Some congressional critics are more than satisfied by the State Department report. Says Congressman Jim Leach, Republican from Iowa: "The previous statements on the subject were sufficient to indict but not to convict. On the basis of the new report, I think any jury would convict...
...troubled period for movies, when attendance is slipping and not even the presence of Burt Reynolds or Clint Eastwood can guarantee box office gold, Richard Pryor is the one actor whose name spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have...
...attorneys, Mary Welcome, summed up the defense in an emotional diatribe that compared the defendant to a different "dreamer," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The state, Welcome said, had succeeded only in tarnishing the young man's reputation. She pleaded: "In this nation, you do not convict a person of murder or anything else by soiling him." In a final flourish, she placed a tiny thimble on the jury box rail. Said she disparagingly of the prosecution's presentation: "I leave this with you-a thimbleful of evidence, which is not enough for conviction...
...pick out," says Gary Howell, 34, director of the Kansas City regional crime lab. The probability that any two people will share the same assortment of these blood variables is .1% or less. Because of that, Howell was recently able to use two tiny bloodstains to help convict a double murderer...