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...women and children during a 12-year rampage through southern Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The prosecution presented chilling evidence of how the quiet, bespectacled former schoolteacher smashed his victims' eardrums, gouged out their eyes and then feasted on their sexual organs. As the sentence was read out, the courtroom erupted in turmoil, with one mother yelling, "Give him to us! Let us have...
...WHEN HE HELPED RONALD REAGAN SNATCH the White House from Jimmy Carter, Jim Baker summed up his view of presidential politics in two words -- "reasonable doubt." As an attorney -- and he was one of the best when he practiced law for a living -- Baker has always been charmed by courtroom analogies. "At the presidential level," he explained, "the stakes are so high, and are seen as so high by the voters, that the trick is to cause people to view your opponent as somehow 'guilty,' as being unfit for the top. Especially if you're the incumbent, if you create...
...flood of frivolous litigation by willful children against their parents. Finally, after a parade of witnesses attested to his mother's less than perfect parenting, it was Gregory's small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child had spent just seven months with his mother. While a weeping Rachel Kingsley listened, he recalled how she often came home drunk and kept a stash of marijuana "in a brown box on a table in the living room." At the end, the courtroom...
...kidnapping and murder, which has remained shrouded in mystery for decades, the details of the final four days of Sidney Reso came clear a little over four months after the 57-year-old Exxon International president vanished on his way to work April 29. Last week in a federal courtroom in Trenton, New Jersey, Arthur Seale, a former security officer for Exxon, recounted the grisly details as he pleaded guilty to extortion charges that could bring him up to 95 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines. Seale's plea reversal came on the eve of his trial...
Lately the attacks on Carnes have widened to include his defense of instances in which prosecutors have resorted to the unconstitutional practice of using courtroom challenges to keep blacks off of juries in trials of black defendants. Rosa Davis, chief of the Alabama attorney general's appeals division, says it's simply Carnes' job to justify the actions of trial prosecutors when one of their convictions is challenged on appeal. "Our arguing for the state doesn't mean that we support racial discrimination," she insists, "any more than someone who represents a convicted murderer supports killing." But Carnes' public statements...