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...help the law by exposing the painstaking accumulation of facts required to prove guilt. It is a dispiriting truth, however, that viewers fail to demand fuller coverage of proceedings that don't involve Kennedys and panty hose -- like the trials of Manuel Noriega or S&L bandit Charles Keating Jr. But showmanship still counts. Would it be any surprise if the cameras tempted lawyers, witnesses and judges to posture a bit more than they already would for the jury? Maybe these matters were better understood back in 1962, when Raymond Burr, the star of Perry Mason, sought a meeting with...
Carlos Lehder Rivas, one of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel, was % supposed to be the U.S. government's star witness in the Miami trial of Panama's General Manuel Noriega, who is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. But the prosecution's plans were turned upside down last week when Lehder, 42, claimed that the cartel gave $10 million to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras...
Lehder's bizarre testimony was a serious setback for the prosecution's case: by denying his specific charges, the U.S. undermined his credibility as an anti-Noriega witness...
...been anything but gentle in his legal assault against the complainant. Backing him up is the more combative Mark Schnapp, who made his mark in the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami by prosecuting drug dealers and money launderers, including helping to draft the indictment against Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega...
American intelligence gathering is also hobbled by the familiar Washington turf wars, especially the competition between the CIA and the various branches of military intelligence. Some blame that rivalry for the fact that during the 1989 invasion of Panama, American troops spent four days locating General Manuel Noriega. CIA defenders contend that the agency was kept in the dark about the invasion until a few hours beforehand, thus limiting what it could do. "There is too much cowboyism going on, too much effort by agencies to duplicate the work," says New Mexico Representative Bill Richardson, a member of the House...