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Maybe not. By keeping Deaver off the witness stand, where he would have been subjected to withering cross-examination, Miller won not-guilty verdicts on two key counts. Moreover, Deaver and others are challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 law that established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying...
Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb refused to waive diplomatic immunity to testify about a lunch he had with Deaver in January 1985 to discuss acid rain. Without evidence about the lunch, that section of the count was dismissed. The jury finally acquitted Deaver of the remaining charges involving acid rain...
...prison term was one year longer than the sentence given last February to Investment Banker Dennis Levine, who led investigators to Boesky after confessing that he and Boesky had been part of an insider-trading ring. But Boesky, who, as part of a plea bargain, admitted to one count of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission, could have received a five-year sentence and a $250,000 fine. Clearly the judge knocked time off because Boesky has been cooperating with investigators. Before his crimes were publicly revealed, he taped conversations with conspirators to provide evidence for prosecutors...
...24th and final game. A draw would give him only half a point, and would allow Karpov to regain the title that he had surrendered to Kasparov two years earlier. But in the tense match game, with an astonishing virtuosity, Kasparov forced Karpov to resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant he retained his championship. The feat had the capacity crowd of 700 in the ornate Teatro Lope de Vega offering a 20-minute standing ovation. One expert called it the "most dramatic finish ever seen in world- championship chess...
...jury, which began deliberations Friday, acquitted Deaver of one count charging that he had lied to the grand jury and another that he had given false testimony to the subcommittee...