Word: courtroom
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Even as the Walker scandal broke, another notorious spy case came to a close in a Los Angeles federal courtroom. Former Northrop Engineer Thomas Cavanagh, 40, was sentenced last week to 99 years in prison for attempting to sell "stealth" aircraft technology to FBI agents posing as Soviet embassy personnel. His price for this vital information: a modest...
...smiles around the defense table in the Providence courtroom all but told the story. Judge Corinne Grande had just deflated one of the prosecution's main hopes in the 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...
...past month, such testimony has sent a chill through the Tribunales courtroom in Buenos Aires. There, six judges are presiding over a trial in which nine top military leaders, including three former Presidents, are charged with responsibility for a broad sweep of crimes. "There has never been anything like this in Latin America," says Journalist Jacobo Timerman, who himself was imprisoned and tortured. "Imagine -- civilians sitting in judgment on the military...
Fiske called his client's crime "a foolish mistake." But the prosecution saw it differently. "Mr. Thayer probably had more money at the time than everybody in this courtroom combined," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles H. Roistacher. Thayer did what he did, Roistacher insisted, because "he thought he could get away with...
...Department of State is accustomed to difficult negotiations, but the adversaries it faced in a Washington courtroom last week were from its own ranks. In a class action, 2,700 present and former women Foreign Service officers have charged Foggy Bottom with sex discrimination. Said Ellen Kabcenell Wayne, an attorney for the plaintiffs: "There is discrimination in promotion, performance evaluation and awards...