Word: dossiers
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...army's East End hostel, Brigadier Langdon celebrated the same anniversary by writing the words "Case successful" on another dossier-of a partner in a bankrupt decorating firm who had cashed a bad check to get clothes for his children, then had come up to London to kill himself (among other things, the Salvation Army made good the check...
Preparing the Dossier. But more serious critics assailed the French judicial system itself. Under French law. there is no grand jury; instead, there is the juge d'instruction, whom Balzac called the most powerful man in the Republic. He performs the role of investigating magistrate. His great power is that, on his decision, and his alone, he can put any suspect in jail under "preventive detention'' while he investigates the case and prepares a dossier for the trial. Such "preventive detentions" can last for years...
...trial before three magistrates. In theory, the chief judge is impartial, explaining the arguments to the jury. In practice, he does not arbitrate, he prosecutes. French judges are generally considered honest and conscientious; the role is forced on them by the system. The chief judge must operate from the dossier prepared by the juge d'instruction, and the dossier is obviously the state's case against the accused. In effect, the chief judge challenges the defense counsel to disprove the dossier; he himself questions the defendant and the witnesses. The prosecutor merely keeps notes until it is time...
Steaming with indignation, Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab himself stalked into Ilyichev's office to protest. Blandly, Ilyichev produced the dossier, which included a picture of Sokolowski in a German uniform and a 1944 Austrian police record listing him as a deserter from the Russian army. The Russians had thoughtfully stolen both from Vienna police headquarters in 1945, tucked them away for use in their own time...
...officials who called at the High Commission are "representatives of the Austrian people," and that any charges against them could be investigated only through Austrian channels. Snapped Raab: "This is an unprecedented abuse of right and justice, but it will never break our will." With a flick of a dossier, the Russians had effectively reminded occupied Austria who pulls the strings-and who must jump...