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FEDERAL trial Judge Gerhard A. Gesell has already dismissed the most serious charges because national security would not permit North to use certain evidence deemed essential for his defense. North was originally charged with stealing $14 million in profits from United States arms sales to Iran and conspiring to subvert government processes by funneling the money to the Nicaraguan contras...
...secret document that supports his client's claim to have acted only under orders from higher authority or merely followed routine Administration policy regarding covert activity. Prosecutor John Keker, on behalf of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, objects, arguing that release of the document would damage national security. Judge Gerhard Gesell sends the jury out of the courtroom and summons ) opposing counsel to a conference. Perhaps the issue can be resolved there, but quite possibly the trial is suspended while the opposing sides try to work out a deal allowing a sanitized version of the document to be introduced. If they...
...proposal is approved by the judge handling the case, U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to lift the stay so that the North trial may proceed, according to statements issued by the department and Walsh...
Walsh gave one big reason for asking U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell to dismiss charges of conspiracy and theft of Government property against the ex-Marine: intractable problems in protecting classified information contained in documents that both the prosecution and the defense have said are essential to their efforts. Said Walsh: "A continuing problem in the case has been the protection of national-security information in light of this defendant's insistence on disclosing large quantities of such information at trial." Gesell is likely to approve Walsh's request this week...
...whether the White House was in collusion with North, Reagan insisted, "The things we're blocking are the things that duty requires we block." He would not pardon North before a trial, he said, because anyone accepting a pardon would live "under a shadow of guilt." Since Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell hopes to start the trial in late January, any pardon after a possible conviction would have to come from the new President, George Bush...