Word: pretrial
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Andrew Oliver II '92 was billed $300 in court costs during a pretrial hearing in the Cambridge District Court yesterday...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--A state attorney initially said prosecutors in the William Kennedy Smith rape case couldn't use allegations of previously unreported assaults, according to pretrial testimony made public yesterday...
...civil liberties aspect of the Noriega case is "unprecedented and somewhat disturbing," says Charles Maechling Jr., a specialist in international law. Lawyers point specifically to Noriega's long pretrial incarceration without an opportunity for bail. Some experts are also worried that Noriega's lawyers haven't fully explored his POW status or the jurisdictional question of kidnapping him and bringing him to Miami to trial. "How would we feel about Libyan squads coming to the U.S. to extract Islamic justice?" wonders Alfred Rubin, professor of international law at Tufts University...
...case the media circus is likely to continue. "This is the worst case of pretrial publicity that I've seen in the recent past," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University law school and a legal ethics specialist. "In my view the prosecutor's tactic was strategically brilliant but improper. If victory is the only goal, she's measurably increased her chance of winning -- but she's abused her power by jeopardizing the chances of a fair trial." Perhaps. But given the Smith team's efforts to dig up dirt on the alleged victim's history, neither side...
Masson sued for libel, claiming that he had never said any of these things and that other quotations had been distorted to make him look ridiculous. A long legal wrangle ensued, during which Malcolm, in a pretrial deposition, conceded that she had combined a number of Masson's comments over a period of months to suggest that they had all occurred during a single lunch at a restaurant in Berkeley. Her 40 or so hours of tapes and her notes of interviews with Masson do not contain the three quotations he claimed were fabricated. Still, her legal defense maintained that...