Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under orders from the Ohio Supreme Court, Nadel reluctantly made public the 225-page investigative report to Giamatti prepared by John Dowd, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney. Dowd's case is somewhat weakened because it depends heavily on the testimony of Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, two convicted felons. But Dowd insisted that their stories were corroborated by other witnesses, by tape recordings, by records of Rose's telephone calls and, most important, by betting sheets that a retired FBI expert judged to be in Rose's handwriting. Rose said he could not identify them...
...tons of cocaine to Florida. By the time Ochoa's hearing was convened two weeks later with all the haste and splash of the ongoing scapegoat trials in China, it was a foregone conclusion that this popular and much decorated military officer would be found guilty. Ochoa's court-martial began last Friday, and all that remains now is the firing squad or an eleventh-hour display of leniency on Castro's part...
...though, never quite materialized. While the timber industry announced its "reluctant acceptance" of the compromise, Andy Kerr, conservation director for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, complained that environmentalists did not have enough time to analyze the plan. Moreover, the group, which has been able to halt logging by obtaining court injunctions, was unwilling to drop all litigation for two years, as stipulated. In addition, the conservationists contended that the proposal, which allows loggers to harvest 8 billion board feet in the disputed lands through 1990, some 2 billion less than under normal conditions, surrendered too much...
Congress is putting pressure on the industry to prevent accidents and do a better job of mopping up slicks. -- The Time-Paramount battle heads for a showdown in a Delaware court. -- T. Boone's Tokyo campaign...
...Supreme Court decides that capital punishment for the mentally retarded and for 16- and 17-year-olds is not "cruel and unusual" punishment...