Word: mikail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courtroom drama was swift and efficient. After a two-week murder trial, jurors deliberated for less than six hours and emerged with a guilty verdict, putting a killer behind bars for life. Case closed. Thus was textbook justice meted out last week in Los Angeles, when jurors convicted Mikail Markhasev, 19, of fatally shooting Ennis Cosby, venerable entertainer Bill's only son, while he was changing a flat tire on Jan. 16, 1997. The Cosby family issued a brief statement saying it was "satisfied" with the outcome. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti stood outside the Santa Monica courthouse beaming...
...Simpson case. At issue is a single human hair, roots intact, that was found in a knit cap wrapped around a .38-cal. revolver connected with the murder. Ballistic tests suggest that the bullet that killed Cosby came from that gun, and DNA testing links the hair to MIKAIL MARKHASEV. One problem: when the L.A.P.D.'s lab technicians inspected the cap after it was found in March 1997, they found only "shed" hairs without roots; reliable DNA testing requires the root. Nine months later, after it became clear that the case would depend heavily on witnesses with criminal pasts...
...turned out to be the phone call that broke the case. Last Wednesday, six weeks after receiving the information from the Enquirer, Los Angeles police arrested Mikail Markhasev, 18, an immigrant from Ukraine, and charged him with the murder of comedian Bill Cosby's only son, who was shot on a dark stretch near a Los Angeles highway while trying to change a flat tire. Police say the killing was the result of a spontaneous and botched attempt to steal Cosby's $130,000 Mercedes-Benz. "It appears that robbery was the motive," L.A.P.D. chief Willie Williams said...
...Soviet Union has shown that full-blown greed, competition and vicious take-overs are not the sole province of Drexel Burnham. The secession of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet Union promises to be bigger than the break-up of AT&T. Corporate raiders beware--Soviet President Mikail S. Gorbachev may soon be the new Carl Icahn...