Word: pretrial
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...Indeed, pretrial motions planned by Espy's lawyers could slim the indictment down by the time the case goes to trial, possibly next spring or summer. Some charges are based on a law to prevent meat inspectors from being bribed into approving unsavory products--a rarely used statute and one never before applied to a Secretary of Agriculture. Another area where Smaltz may have trouble before a judge or jury: sources close to Tyson say the football tickets and other items were solicited by Espy's then girlfriend, without his direction...
...experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon used the findings of his own panel of scientists to exclude the plaintiffs' evidence in some 70 cases brought against implant makers. Federal Judge Sam Pointer of Alabama is evaluating pretrial evidence in 22,000 cases. To this end he has carefully assembled a four-member expert panel. Its conclusions and videotaped depositions are expected to influence not just Pointer but many other judges as well in determining what should be allowed in court. His report is expected early next year...
...beginning, during the pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they...
...deposed in 1994, "Our instruction was to run our plant based on...U.S. environmental standards." That may be true now, since many companies cleaned up their worst environmental excesses after the outbreak of fetal deformities, which ended as suddenly as it began. But internal corporate documents and previously unreported pretrial testimony obtained by CNN's Impact suggest that these corporations were using Mexico's border region as a private dumping ground...
...bombmaking chemicals. Frederick Alan Schlender, the manager of the Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, will testify that on Sept. 30, 1994, someone closely resembling Nichols bought 40 bags of ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common for someone to buy a ton of ammonium nitrate." When FBI agents searched Nichols' home in Herington, they found a receipt for one of the purchases...