Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors also requested new trials on the basis that the judge had violated their due process rights in his instructions to the jury. They argued that the judge was wrong in refusing to tell the jurors that, in order to convict on rape charges, they must find that Hussain and Lefkowitz knew the victim did not want to have intercourse...
...details of book contracts and postponed deadlines. But there are priceless private scenes: Mailer asking his mother to judge which of five obscenities is the strongest, for example, and a sobering public confrontation when the author meets a hostile press after testifying for Jack Henry Abbott in the ex-convict's trial for the murder of Richard Adan, a Greenwich Village waiter. Mostly the book is grand gossip, a sort of Portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary soiree for a long afternoon in the hammock...
...solution seems to be stricter enforcement. That has become a primary goal of the Reagan Administration, despite its repu- tation of being cozy with Big Business. In 1983 the Justice Department set up the Economic Crime Council, made up of top law-enforcement officials, to "target, identify, prosecute and convict" people who commit financial crimes. The result has been a shift in priorities for Government crime busters. In 1970 only 8% of the criminal cases pursued by federal authorities involved white- collar offenses, but that figure rose to 24% in 1984. The Justice Department brought 20 cases last year against...
...when she was playing the wide-eyed governess on the soap opera Dark Shadows, Alexandra Isles never made such a dramatic entrance. After Judge Corinne Grande told the prosecutors in the retrial of Claus von Bulow that they had four days to produce the former actress whose testimony helped convict Von Bulow in 1982, Isles realized that her greatest star turn was upon her. Ending months of European seclusion, she returned to Rhode Island to testify against her former lover. Demurely yet firmly, she described a 1980 phone call in which Von Bulow confided that he stood by and watched...
...retrial of Claus von Bulow for allegedly trying to kill his now comatose wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow in 1979 and again in 1980. The judge had ruled that the state could not offer the jury the 1982 testimony by ex-Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles, who helped convict her former lover in his first trial. Isles had testified that she had threatened to leave Von Bulow unless he divorced his wife, an action that would have cut him off from a legacy of more than $14 million. Judge Grande held that to present such evidence in Isles' absence would...