Word: pretrial
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Peterson nonetheless called Franny two days later and asked her out. According to the woman's pretrial testimony, they drove to an Oshkosh coffee shop, where Franny told Peterson about Jennifer, another personality, whom she described as a "20-year-old female who likes to dance and have fun." When the couple got back into Peterson's car, he summoned Jennifer and asked her, "Can I love you?" She answered, "O.K." (Later Jennifer would say she thought this was an invitation to go dancing...
Investigation of the alleged crime has sometimes evoked scenes from The Three Faces of Eve. During a one-day pretrial hearing, three of Sarah's 21 personalities were sworn in separately. In each instance, she closed her eyes, paused, then opened them to speak and act as different people. At one point, Sarah was given a glass of water by the judge. Later another personality did not remember having taken the drink...
...defense is nonetheless trying, as it wades through a witness list loaded with 112 names, to persuade the jury that the captain was a scapegoat. Says Michael Chalos, a defense lawyer who was a college mate of Hazelwood's: "We know it's an uphill battle, considering the pretrial publicity...
...Panama winds down, the battle in the U.S. is just shaping up. Noriega now has at his disposal an arsenal he could not call upon at home: the ample resources of a defendant in an American courtroom. The general's lawyers raised the standard defense objections about pretrial publicity and inadmissible evidence. Both objections have been given a fresh twist by Noriega's singular status as a de facto head of state tracked down by an invading army. The biggest question, however, is more a matter of politics than of legal procedure. With Noriega in court, will Bush also...
...Noriega probably knows more about what is in our CIA files than anyone in the Justice Department," says Richard Gregorie, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who drew up the Miami indictment against the general. "He knows what to ask for." The asking is likely to begin early in a pretrial process that could go on for a year or more. Only documents that relate directly to the drug charges can be introduced into court, so much of the most provocative material concerning Noriega's services to the CIA may be beyond the reach of his attorneys. But if the government...