Word: impaneling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...ask the jury which kind of hate made him pull the trigger? Not in my courtroom. Not if I can help...
Starr has said that when the term of his Little Rock grand jury expires on May 7, he almost surely won't impanel another one. The grand jury has not brought an indictment in two years, and sources familiar with the investigation say just one is in the works. Starr is said to be making another run at Clinton's pal Webster Hubbell, this time on tax charges. The problem is, Hubbell didn't provide any useful testimony in 1994, when Starr convicted him of bilking clients and partners at the Rose law firm. He isn't any more likely...
...district court judge agreed to impanel a special grand jury to focus on the federal investigation of President Clinton's Whitewater real estate venture and its links to a failed S&L. Special counsel Robert Fiske informed the judge that the probe may last 18 months. In a related development, federal bank regulators cleared Hillary Clinton's old law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, of any conflict of interest regarding its association with the same...