Word: courtroom
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...minutes to reach the end of the list. When he finally finished, 338 members of the Mafia were sent to jail for crimes ranging from murder to drug trafficking. The remaining 114 on trial were acquitted by the eight-member court that met in a heavily guarded Palermo courtroom crowded with specially built cages to hold the 452 defendants. Thus ended, nearly two years after it had begun, the biggest Mafia trial in Italian history. Said Palermo Judge Pietro Grasso, a member of the court: "It was a landmark for law, for us and for our children...
Even as the court wound up its courageous deliberations, another trial against 78 alleged mafiosi continued in the same Palermo courtroom. Meanwhile, a new wave of killings was feared imminent: only three hours after he was acquitted of charges of international drug trafficking and Mafia association, Antonino Ciulla, 35, was gunned down in Palermo on his way to celebrate his release. Italian police also launched an investigation into the execution- , style slaying of Businessman Francesco Gitto, 58, a first cousin of Matilda Cuomo, the wife of New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Gitto, a well-known figure in his hometown...
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver stood stiffly beside his lawyer in a federal courtroom in Washington last week, expecting the worst. His lawyers, in a long-shot gamble, had presented no evidence to counter the assertion by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. that Deaver had repeatedly lied under oath about his lucrative lobbying business. When the jury returned guilty verdicts on three of five counts, canny Defense Counsel Jack Miller manfully shouldered the blame: "We didn't put on a defense because we didn't think we had to. The jury verdict suggests...
...spotlight will be back on the scandal once again this week, when the biggest insider trader snared so far, Ivan Boesky, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker's Manhattan courtroom for sentencing. Boesky, who has been pointing investigators toward investment bankers and others with whom he traded inside information, faced Judge Lasker last week in a final hearing before sentencing. Once Wall Street's most aggressive speculator in takeover stocks, Boesky was a picture of contrition in court. "I am deeply ashamed," he said. "I have spent the last year trying to understand how I veered...
...courtroom, Mrs. Deaver had put an arm around her daughter as the verdict was announced. Deaver sat down after the foreman finished, turned to his family and gave them a sad smile...