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...badges, and they had stories to tell: Volpe leading Haitian immigrant Abner Louima into a bathroom, Volpe boasting about having sodomized Louima with a stick, Volpe brandishing said stick, Volpe returning bloodstained gloves to a fellow officer in the NYPD. And so Volpe's lawyer, local star Marvin Kornberg, never even presented a defense, and the disgraced cop is pleading guilty to all charges. He faces 25 years to life -- and will probably get more rather than less. "Besides the sheer awfulness of what he did, Volpe really didn't give the government any reason for leniency," says TIME legal...
...part, Marvyn Kornberg, the attorney for Officer Volpe, simply says Louima was lying, not about his injuries but about how and where they occurred. "What happened to [Louima] was not a result of anything that took place in the station house," he declared, without elaboration. And he disputed any allegation of racial bias. "They don't know what they're talking about--Volpe's girlfriend is black...
...Marvyn Kornberg, Joseph Buttafuoco's attorney, denounced the plea bargain as "a stone-cold sellout," a deal to allow Fisher to testify against his client on statutory rape charges. Mrs. Buttafuoco, who has supported her husband's claim that he was never involved with Fisher, was likewise furious over the deal. Said she: 'The bullet couldn't kill me, but the judicial system surely will...
Hauptman and Karle first met at City College of New York, from which they graduated in 1937 (the same class that spawned Arthur Kornberg, the medicine Nobelist for l959). Both of this year's winners are compulsive about science, but Hauptman, at least, squeezes out some time for such outside pursuits as creating patterns for stained glass. The difference in their temperaments is perhaps best revealed by the way each learned about his award. Hauptman, married to a schoolteacher and father of two daughters, had just finished his daily hour of swimming at a YMCA pool. Karle, whose three daughters...
...think people feel it's unfortunate and feel sorry for the people involved, but people don't make judgments," says Allan Kornberg, chairman of Duke's political science department. "If I had an undergraduate who wanted to come to Harvard, I'd say, 'Great, it's a great place...