Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's proceedings featured the continued testimony of A. Frances G. Schwartz, a lawyer who worked with Walsh at his firm, Ferraro and Walsh, and a co-defendent in the case. Schwartz testified as part of a plea bargain arrangement...
Charges against Cargill were dropped immediately before the trial began after he cooperated with prosecutors, and the rest have agreed to plea-bargain agreements...
...recreate the crime, the attack in question -- and most subsequent plot points -- are already on film. The videocam verite of the clubbing provides the same gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...
...hours of testimony provided for investigators by Gillooly on Jan. 26 and 27 and released last week by Oregon's Multnomah County circuit court did he give evidence that independently corroborated his charge that Harding gave the go-ahead for the assault on Kerrigan. Despite Gillooly's guilty plea to one count of racketeering in exchange for a recommended two-year prison sentence and a $100,000 fine, his statements alone offered no firm basis to indict Harding in the pre-assault conspiracy...
...this may eventually add up to little more than bad judgment on Harding's part. Others involved in the case have behaved just as poorly. Last Tuesday, Gillooly's attorney Ronald Hoevet publicly elaborated on his client's guilty plea. Hoevet charged Harding with obtaining both the name of the Tony Kent Arena and Kerrigan's hotel-room number in Detroit and of participating in a Jan. 10 meeting between Gillooly and Eckardt at which an alibi was concocted. He said he had "no doubt" about Harding's guilt and suggested that it would be "unconscionable" for Harding to skate...