Word: gribetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three convicts face possible terms of 75 years to life. Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz will seek the maximum when they are sentenced Oct. 14. Said Gribetz: "There has not been a word of contrition or remorse for the murders. We would be fools not to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives...
Some observers were startled by the results of the federal case, which had been carefully orchestrated with Rockland County authorities to maximize the chance of convictions. The federal prosecutors relied heavily on the testimony of two informants who defense attorneys said were lying to save themselves. Gribetz, however, was able to introduce testimony from eyewitnesses to the crimes. In the federal prosecution's defense, Gribetz said: "They had the more difficult case in that theirs rested upon informant testimony." Nevertheless, even U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, who presided over the five-month federal trial, expressed surprise...
...planning strategy for the two trials, federal and local officials spent a great deal of time huddling to decide who should prosecute whom. Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz says there was "an agreement from the start" that he and the federal prosecutors would divide up the defendants according to which jurisdiction had the best evidence. Gribetz ended up trying those he was convinced he could prove were at the scene of the robbery and murders. Using racketeering, conspiracy and bank-robbery statutes, federal authorities "are trying the people we could not easily get under state law," explains Gribetz...
...suspect who provided FBI agents with crucial early information, which he later claimed was coerced out of him. Questions were raised among prosecutors as to whether some of Brown's statements could be used against him in any trial. Brown does not face any federal charges, but Gribetz wants to try him in Goshen. In order to avoid tainting his case, the local prosecutor insists that he deliberately never examined any evidence in the federal case that originated with Brown, including tapes and transcripts from wiretaps that formed the foundation of the federal prosecution...
...current Goshen trial, Gribetz has also been meticulous. He introduced 84 witnesses and 540 pieces of evidence in the process of building a case against Defendants Judith Clark, 33, David Gilbert, 39, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36. In federal court, the four-month trial of the six defendants involved more than 100 witnesses. To be sure, the presentation of both cases was made easier by the refusal of some defendants to offer a standard defense. The three Goshen suspects early on pronounced the trial "illegitimate," because they consider themselves to be "freedom fighters" and "prisoners of war." They declined...