Word: garcetti
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. He was fined and placed on two years' probation after pleading no contest. So impermeable was his image, however, that the conviction did not prevent NBC Sports from signing him to a broadcast contract three months later. Last week, city district attorney Gil Garcetti called the handling of the case "a joke, a terrible joke. This whole thing is the result of the justice system not dealing with domestic violence...
...background. Nicole was fighting tears as she told a 911 operator that Simpson had broken into the house. She was advised by the operator to stay on the line, but Nicole fell silent as Simpson continued to rage. Garbled expletives could be heard. L.A. district attorney Gil Garcetti, who criticized the release of the tapes, says he will meet no more media requests for information. He claims the official blackout will help ensure a fair trial...
...criminal-justice system is "on the verge of a crisis of credibility," says Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He admits that in the Menendez brothers' cases, he and his team underestimated "the emotional pull" the abuse defense had on the jurors. Garcetti hopes to head off such tendencies among jurors by changing the system itself. At his initiative, a team of judges along with the heads of the state and county bar associations has formed a task force to study the possibility of altering rules about juries. Among ideas to be explored: broadening the pool of jurors to include...
...while, Jackson's improbable front man was private detective Anthony Pellicano. As for Jackson's lawyers, one of them never met his client; the other spent only 30 minutes with him in Moscow and promptly departed for the South of France. They did not even know if Garcetti was issuing an arrest warrant for Jackson. The savviest legal and personal adviser was actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose own lawyer told her, "Cochran is the only...
...Garcetti had issued no arrest warrant for Jackson. But he had obtained a warrant for a humiliating full-body exam and photo session. The Santa Barbara D.A. obtained a similar warrant, with this threat: "Michael Jackson shall be advised that he has no right to refuse the examination and photographs, and any refusal to comply with this warrant would be admissible at trial and would be an indication of his consciousness of guilt." The Santa Barbara D.A. also wanted several police to be present when Jackson was photographed, and for a ruler to be used to measure any splotches...