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...MELVIN MILLIGAN Puts faith in post office: mails his winning N.J. lottery ticket. $46 mil will buy lot of stamps...
...bitter convolution of fate that Gilchrist should be based in Oklahoma City, the last place one would expect to find compelling arguments against the death penalty. Her story can't help but give Oklahomans pause about the quality of justice meted out by their courts. Says Gilchrist's lawyer, Melvin Hall: "The criticism of her around here is second only to that of Timothy McVeigh." But the allegations also underscore a national problem: the sometimes dangerously persuasive power of courtroom science. Juries tend to regard forensic evidence more highly than they regard witnesses because it is purportedly more objective...
...labeled Cuffy--or anyone--a suspect. Nor have they found the semiautomatic weapon used to kill Derwin Brown, a weapon very similar to the guns in Sunday's shoot-out. Still, they have filed obstruction-of-justice charges against Cuffy's roommate David Ramsey and another Dorsey loyalist, Melvin Walker, for allegedly misleading investigators about Cuffy's alibi. Within days of those arrests, the armed men descended on Cuffy's home. He says they came to kill him. He escaped injury, while Hewitt was shot in the legs and feet in the fire fight, which ended with the gunmen...
Jesse Jackson personally appealed to Clinton to commute the sentence of Melvin Reynolds, a former Illinois Congressman serving seven years for corruption and for having sex with an underage campaign worker. Other Jackson associates who received clemency include John H. Bustamante, 70, a former adviser who pleaded guilty to fraud in 1993, and Dorothy Rivers, a former Operation PUSH official serving six years for embezzling more than a million dollars in federal aid for homeless children. She will be freed from prison next year...
...their work is based on intuition or visceral reaction to reporting," says former cia analyst Melvin Goodman, now a professor at Washington's National War College. "The standards of evidence are very weak." Former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith agrees: "You have bits and pieces you can assemble that give you some degree of confidence that you're accurate, but it's rare you find a smoking gun." In some cases, of course, a tiny bit of evidence can make all the difference. In the Pan Am 103 case, for example, it was the CIA that first identified the fragment...