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...Other recent cases bolster that view as well. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a case directly related to Enron and Quattrone, in May of 2005 voided a witness-tampering conviction of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP by stating that the trial's jury was wrongly told it could convict the firm for shredding documents during the government's investigation of Enron even if Andersen employees believed they were not breaking the law. And Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted last year on fraud charges in the financial collapse of the telecommunications company, is basing his appeal on similar...
...with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should be put to death for not revealing a plan he never took part...
...seedy” history and its significant place in the broader story of American history. He tells of a time when traveling Dutchmen confused Harvard for a tavern, and when William Stoughton, Class of 1650—who donated ?1000 to the building of Stoughton Hall—helped convict George Burroughs, Class of 1670, during the Salem witch trials. Schlesinger describes how students were already debating about slavery during Commencement in 1773, how U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, revolutionized the rules for modern football based on his undergraduate experiences, and how University President James B. Conant, Class...
...extremely nervous. As a print journalist, I rarely appear on TV, and knowing that everyone back home would be watching--and, I hoped, seeing me help convict a man who is still regarded as a hero in some quarters--didn't help me overcome my stage fright...
...threat of such a persuasive, publicly subversive figure, according to the non-binding Italian report, that put Wojtyla in the Soviets' firing line. A hired Turkish assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, was convicted of shooting the Pontiff in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. (After briefly being released earlier this year, Agca is back in an Istanbul prison serving time for an earlier killing of a Turkish journalist). Italian prosecutors long held that the Bulgarian secret service was working for Soviet military intelligence, but an Italian court held that the evidence was insufficient to convict the Bulgarians...