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...broadcast would directly violate Noriega's rights. Any release of confidential client-lawyer information would be automatic cause for a mistrial. This makes CNN's wish to air the tapes more than just a desire to inform the public of governmental wrongdoing...
Outside the courtroom, Buckey embraced his father with tears in his eyes and said, "It's all over." It was the second mistrial for Buckey, whose mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, had been acquitted of similar charges in January after the longest trial in U.S. history. That jury had been unable to reach a decision on all the counts against Raymond. Prosecutors then made their second attempt to convict him, this time on charges of molesting three of the children, girls who are now ages 11 to 13. Buckey spent five years in prison awaiting his day in court. The bill...
...introduced into court, so much of the most provocative material concerning Noriega's services to the CIA may be beyond the reach of his attorneys. But if the government refuses to turn over files that Federal % District Judge William M. Hoeveler deems essential, that could result in a mistrial or the dismissal of some charges. Some Washington insiders doubt that the trial will result in embarrassing disclosures. "There isn't anything there," says Elliott Abrams, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs. "It's a bugaboo." Other intelligence experts disagree. According to a former CIA official quoted...
...Feds convict anybody in a court trial? In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations, Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly deadlocked...
...Beebe allegedly profited. Beebe was sentenced to perform community service, while some of his associates were acquitted. Two years later, the Government accused him of fraud for making loans to a quarter-horse breeder with whom Beebe allegedly held an interest in a tax-shelter scheme. After the 1987 mistrial, Beebe pleaded guilty last year to the two fraud counts...