Word: frame-up
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...Simpson trial deals in the same kind of cognitive dissonance. Defense lawyers are suggesting that the l.a.p.d. has executed an ingenious frame-up of Simpson even as they lay bare the workaday ineptitude of the same alleged conspirators. These views would seem self-evidently irreconcilable, and yet the public is said to be so willing to believe in a police conspiracy that virtually every legal expert expects Simpson to walk...
...attorney forO.J. Simpson, marched through his opening statement today, crisply attacking the prosecutors' case, while portraying his client as a victim of a "rush to judgment" by Los Angeles authorities. "We're going to talk about the trails that they didn't pursue," Cochran said. He hinted of a frame-up by authorities, claiming that the district attorney's office had ignored an account by a woman who was in Nicole Brown Simpson's neighborhood the night of the murder. Cochran claimed the woman informed the D.A.'s office that she had seen four men walking away from the murder...
...bitter have the battles been between Freedman and the conservative journal that one Peninsula editor suspects the president of doing a frame-up job to wound his adversaries...
...least two institutions are dedicated to examining the bitter truth about the past. A Politburo commission formed by Gorbachev has rehabilitated such figures as Nikolai Bukharin, shot after a frame-up show trial in 1938. A rapidly growing group called Memorial aims to build a monument to Stalin's victims and establish an archive and research center to document his crimes...
...Bonet radiating elfin sensuality, and De Niro looking natty with his fancy jewelry and sulfurous smile, Angel Heart holds the mind and eye throughout. To be sure, even the most attentive viewer may still have one small question at the end: Whodunit? (Frankly, we think it was a satanic frame-up.) It is a question that could provoke more profitable debate than the needless fury raised by the rating board's attempted Heart transplant...