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...nine rural churches in Alabama will most likely never go to trial, sources in the case tell TIME. Judge John E. Ott announced Monday that their trial date has been moved from June to November - a delay, according to the sources, that is the result of infighting over a plea agreement among federal prosecutors, the Alabama state attorney and three county prosecutors. The issue: where the trio will serve their jail time...
...with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee...
...University of Texas, "but nobody wanted to be a witness." Slowly, the task force's prosecutors turned the screws on the bad guys. But it was early 2004 before they had enough "serious momentum" to indict Skilling. CFO Andrew Fastow and 15 others turned state's evidence in plea deals. Lay was indicted in July...
...Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens rejected the plea: the case "is not going to jump ahead of the line and be handled any differently," he said, and Nifong said it could be next spring before it comes to trial. However well people understand the desire for a speedy trial in this case, what serves the interests of defendants does not necessarily serve the interests of justice. The state has an interest in finding out what really happened that night off campus. Abiding uncertainty does not make for a gripping TV show. But somehow in these very public cases that...
...admitted to accepting bribes from defense contractors in November. Both the CIA inspector general and the Justice Department have been digging into the relationship between Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is known to be the person identified as "co-conspirator No. 1" in Cunningham's guilty plea...