Word: convicted
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...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...
...from a patient's blood, expose them to cancer proteins in a test tube and reinject them. The cells would then point out the now familiar proteins to the immune system's killer T cells, which would track them down like bloodhounds that have been exposed to an escaped convict's dirty laundry. "We can completely eradicate glioblastomas in rats using this strategy," says Black. "We want to get these treatments out into clinical practices as fast...
...best man at his wedding was Spencer's Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying half his bail and later allowing the former convict to live in a house on the Althorp estate, the family's Northamptonshire ancestral seat...
Nonsense, says a novelist who sits in Da Silvano restaurant every day, same window table, smoking Marlboro Lights. "The federal witness-protection program is welfare for rats," Nick Tosches says, referring to the low-life grunts who have testified, "and if they convict Gigante through these nefarious means, it's a death knell for this neighborhood. You used to be able to leave your doors and windows open around here. For years Gigante has been a benevolent presence, and I'd rather have him as a neighbor than any cop in the Sixth Precinct...
...pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they do not know the Timothy...