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...testify. Yet the jury chose to believe the testimony of these men, some with long criminal records, over the evidence given by police colleagues of the accused officers. Jury questions to the judge indicated a high degree of skepticism over police witnesses' repeated lapses of memory, with a juror asking whether this was the infamous "code of silence" practiced by the police...
Reporters quickly began searching for other evidence that Bush might have given misleading answers about the arrest. When he was called for jury duty in 1996, Bush did not answer a question on a juror questionnaire about whether he had been involved in a previous criminal case. The Bush campaign says the form was filled out by an aide, who also did not answer several other questions. And there were suggestions in some press reports that when Bush got a new driver's license, with the number 00000005, after he became Governor in 1995, his intent might have been...
...Reporters quickly began searching for other evidence that Bush might have given misleading answers about the arrest. When he was called for jury duty in 1996, Bush did not answer a question on a juror questionnaire about whether he had been involved in a previous criminal case. The Bush campaign says the form was filled out by an aide, who also did not answer several other questions. And there were suggestions in some press reports that when Bush got a new driver's license, with the number 00000005, after he became governor in 1995, his intent might have been...
...lung-cancer victim in February, and an Oregon court awarded $32.8 million to another cancer victim in March. The latest cases suggest the public may no longer be buying the industry's defenses. When a tobacco executive at the Florida trial tried to deny that cigarettes are harmful, one juror could be seen rolling her eyes. A legal system that for decades favored the cigarette companies may be kicking the habit...
OVERTURNED. The 1997 conviction of FIFE SYMINGTON, 53, former Governor of Arizona; for bank fraud; by a federal appeals court; in San Francisco. Symington never went to jail. The judge said a juror who believed in his innocence was wrongly dismissed during deliberations...