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...testimony about loan-sharking, extortion and murder but also on his choice of neckwear and the fluff of his pocket handkerchief. In court he made mocking gestures, blew a kiss at lead prosecutor John Gleeson and growled loudly at U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney. At one point Judge I. Leo Glasser threatened to throw Gotti out of the courtroom...
...judge's conduct of the trial that may give the defense its excuse for appeal. First, Glasser barred Gotti's longtime lawyer Bruce Cutler from defending him. Then, in light of charges that the last two Gotti juries had been tampered with, he ordered that the jurors remain anonymous, identified only by number, and sequestered for the duration of the trial...
...jurors who acquitted Gotti in 1987. The juror was charged last month with obstruction of justice in the alleged bribe-taking incident. At the present trial, jurors are identified only by number and are sequestered in an undisclosed location guarded by federal marshals. Even so, Judge I. Leo Glasser replaced two of them last week with alternates after they asked to be excused. One was reported to have made the request because his girlfriend complained of being frightened...
...says, "I'm hard put to find any organization that is so actively opposed to communitarian issues as the A.C.L.U." The American Civil Liberties Union already has critics to spare; George Bush made it a major theme of his 1988 campaign against Michael Dukakis. Moreover, A.C.L.U. executive director Ira Glasser argues, "The problem with the Etzioni group is that they assume incorrectly that individual rights are not a public good...
...Susan B. Glasser...