Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jennifer Levin's parents were in the courtroom every day of the trial, being reminded that their daughter died a horrible death. Why do families put themselves through that...
They wound up in a courtroom that has seen parents who threw their children out windows, dipped them in boiling water, beat them with electrical cords. The Marreros, who had never had any trouble with the law, were accused of unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child. There was a special irony in that charge, since it was being leveled at parents who had been driven to despair watching as their daughter was seduced by the ghetto's most beguiling drug. "We are not criminals," said Maria. "There was nothing else...
Fiers' testimony led to the indictment two weeks ago of his boss, Clair George, the CIA's former chief of covert operations. In a federal courtroom last week George pleaded innocent to the 10-count felony indictment, which alleges that he lied to three congressional committees and to the grand jury that Walsh convened to probe the Iran-contra scandal. If convicted on all counts, George faces up to 50 years in prison...
...charge. In order for the convictions on two remaining charges to stand, Walsh was directed to show that none of the witnesses at North's trial had relied on his highly publicized 1987 testimony to Congress, which North had delivered under a grant of immunity. During a courtroom hearing last week, Robert McFarlane, Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, stunned members of Walsh's team by insisting that his own testimony at North's trial had been deeply tainted by familiarity with North's Senate appearances. McFarlane's contention makes it more likely that all remaining charges against North will...
...police had identified all 11 of the victims killed in Dahmer's apartment. Police are following leads to determine whether he was responsible for other unresolved slayings. At a hearing last week, Dahmer, who is being held on a $1 million bond, sat impassively in a Milwaukee courtroom as Judge Frank Crivello read out the charges on four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, each of which carries a mandatory life sentence. More charges are expected to follow soon...