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...fall." He never directly answered the charges or appeared as a witness under oath, and the chief defense contention seemed to be only that the defendants had all been innocent bystanders. The jury deliberated for three days and convicted all four of the robbery and assault on one policeman. But the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked on the attempted murder charge because they were unable to decide on the issue of intent. The sentence on the other charges could still run to 50 years, however. And Brown also faces trial on charges of inciting a riot in Maryland as well...
...official corruption and civil rights violations. Last year the civil rights staff checked out more than 250 complaints of police brutality, mainly in black neighborhoods. Investigations prompted by Thompson's office led to the first guilty verdict ever handed down in the Northern District against a Chicago policeman on charges of a civil rights violation. Thompson's office recently filed suit charging that the Chicago Fire Department discriminates against blacks and Spanish-speaking people. The suit and the conviction of the policeman did much to enhance the U.S. Attorney's credibility in the city's minority...
...into embarrassing fights with him nor challenge him for the governorship. He worried that three possible candidates for mayor might be less amenable than Wagner. They are: 1) Lindsay, who could always change his mind and run again, 2) Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative and much decorated former policeman, who in his Bronx office dispenses help to complaining constituents in the style of the Godfather, and 3) Republican State Senator John Marchi of Staten Island, an able conservative who is indisputably his own man. An overriding consideration: Rocky wants some control over city hall...
...doubles." In fact, however, the mix-up was merely a reminder of how frequently unreliable police lineups are for the purpose of identification. Only four months before, a Queens teen-ager was misidentified in another rape case. Leonard Gordon, Schrager's defense attorney, spent 20 years as a policeman. He notes that "police can often put pressure on a witness to clear up their caseload." They can press for a quick identification, fearing that the longer a witness mulls, the more likely he is to have doubts. Often others in the lineup look so little like the suspect that...
...acerb wit as his novel Three Trapped Tigers, which was published in the U.S. last year. He wrote the book in the early 1960s, while employed as a magazine editor and cultural attaché producing revolutionary rhetoric for Fidel Castro, whom he detests-"a gangster who has become a policeman." The only things that are run well in Cuba, Cabrera Infante says, are "the three Ps-police, propaganda and paranoia as a system of government." Not surprisingly, he now lives in London...