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...latest headlines erupted when prosecutor Moira Lasch disclosed that she had found three more women who would swear that William Kennedy Smith had attacked them. Even if their testimony is ruled inadmissible, the prosecutor has won an early tactical victory. "In a high-publicity case," observes West Palm Beach defense attorney Craig Boudreau, "what you say in court isn't necessarily what's going to win the case...
Their testimony was a windfall for the prosecution. Lasch hopes to use the $ women's stories to show that Willy had a pattern of attacking women sexually, ignoring their protests and dismissing them afterward with the warning that no one would believe their claims. But it is one thing to have the women swear out a statement; it is another to wrestle their testimony into court. Legal principle holds that a defendant should be judged on evidence of a particular crime, not the record of past ones, unless he consistently commits a sort of signature offense. In this case Smith...
There was also speculation that Lasch is seeking to limit the statements Smith can make on his own behalf. If he takes the stand and comments at all on the way he treats women, for example, Lasch would be allowed to call her witnesses to prove he was lying. But if he refuses to testify, the defense loses a powerful weapon. "It really comes down to his word against hers," says Boudreau. "He's an intelligent, well-spoken man who has no prior criminal convictions. From a defense lawyer's viewpoint, he's a dream client." But if he exercises...
...Moria Lasch, lead prosecutor in the rape case, has been working with police investigators in the obstruction investigation, Terlizzese said...
Professor disagree about how students today should go about creating a new student movement Christopher Lasch, a professor of history at the University of Rochester, says students need to begin again, without trying to follow the model of the last generation, but others say students need to recapture the idealism of the 1960s...