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...resist the impetus" for hearings, says House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde. The process starts with a congressional investigation. It takes a majority vote of the House of Representatives to impeach, and if the vote carries, a trial is conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote is required to convict, which would cause the President to be removed from office. Andrew Johnson is the only President ever impeached, and the Senate failed to convict him. In the only other close call, Nixon resigned at the height of Watergate before the House could vote on impeachment...
DENVER: Michael Fortier was the prosecution's star witness whose riveting testimony helped convict Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. But last week, Fortier proved little help in the effort to convict alleged co-conspirator Terry Nichols...
...capital punishment before the state legislature and many of Jeffrey's relatives were in the balcony for the House's decision. But why should we equate justice with revenge? Juries are fallible. This fact is evident nowhere more than in a Cambridge jury's controversial decision last week to convict British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder. The electric chair is final; its current seals jury convictions forever...
...haunted Russia. Searching for scapegoats--be it at the behest of Bolsheviks, Stalinists or the Russian Space Agency--is a native tradition. But Vasili Tsibliyev, after surviving the premature judgment of Boris Yeltsin (who blamed Mir's woes on "the human factor"), has hit the ground fighting. "They can convict me," he says, "but what'll they do when the next crisis comes?" Though the new crew on Mir has been beset by their own troubles, Tsibliyev won't gloat. "If the crew weren't prepared, they'd be on the ground. No one gets a free ride into...
...been strained for months. "This public backbiting is out of control," says Craig Silverman, a former Denver prosecutor. "This was a good day for the killer of JonBenet." Silverman says the removal of Eller could prove disastrous should the case ever go to trial. "A jury will not convict if it doesn't trust the police and doesn't trust the prosecutor," he said. "Now it is clear the police don't even trust each other, and that will all be exploited by the defense attorneys...