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...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...
...pocket: a spent .38-cal. bullet, which had apparently failed to penetrate the bulletproof vest he was wearing. The slug was traced to the gun of Sergeant Edward O'Grady, one of the two policemen killed in Nyack. "Very strong evidence," said Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz. Burns was believed to be a member of the Black Liberation Army (see box). His possible involvement gave investigators their first inkling that the Weather Underground had not acted alone...
...rented a red Chevrolet van used by the Nyack thieves. Investigators found a rental agreement for another car, signed by Rosahn, in a search of Boudin's apartment. Last week Rosahn was indicted as an accessory in the robbery and three killings in Nyack. District Attorney Gribetz asked that no bail be set for the activist. "She's an individual who would flee the jurisdiction," he said. In fact, Rosahn had been temporarily freed only days earlier on $10,000 bail posted by her radical-minded mother, in connection with an antiapartheid rioting charge. Rosahn's alleged...