Word: loreans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them argue that the best way to avoid accusations of bias is to go anywhere they can and publish absolutely anything they believe is newsworthy. CBS was accused of following this damn-the-consequences policy in October when it aired videotapes of the arrest of Automaker John De Lorean on cocaine trafficking charges, even at the risk of imperiling the chance of finding an impartial jury. The tapes were of dubiously lawful origin-CBS acquired them from Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt, who bought them from a clerk at a law firm that had briefly represented De Lorean-and they...
...gloom and fear and crime and deceit. The press can poison a jury fast. Often, there is a rush to find guilt. Along the way, they deprive defendants of any presumption of innocence. There's a conscious effort to go after anyone big. The only place John De Lorean could get a fair trial would be in a monastery with twelve deaf-mute monks. There's a tendency to overexpose our leaders. Anybody who wants to be a public figure these days is crazy. It's open season on all of them. There's a need...
...fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT shirt, the raunchy, paunchy publisher of Hustler magazine was taken before Judge Robert Takasugi. The judge had ordered Flynt to surrender an audio tape that Flynt said was a recording of former Auto Magnate John Z. De Lorean being coerced by federal agents into participating in the $24 million cocaine deal that ended with his arrest. In court, Flynt stuck to his story that he no longer had the tape because it had been stolen. Later he went before a grand jury, where he ran on at the mouth until...
...fair-minded jury now be impaneled? Though De Lorean's lawyers will argue otherwise, courts have regularly ruled that even the most notorious defendants can be given fair trials if care is taken in selecting members of a jury. "Jurors base their decisions on the facts presented in court. They forget what they have read or heard," says Jack Landau, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press...
...evidence. The mercurial publisher, basking in the media lights, claims that the tapes came from a Government agent. Flynt says he paid $25 million for them. Flynt, who is running for President on a platform that alleges various Government conspiracies, says his purpose here was to prove that De Lorean had been framed. Since he hardly seemed to have done that, Flynt late last week conjured up yet another showy stunt. He summoned reporters and played what he said was an audio recording of a Government informant threatening the automaker and his daughter if De Lorean refused to participate...