Word: pretrial
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...third and most recent occurrence involved a 41-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel based at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, charged with two counts of adultery and one count each of sodomy and fraternization. As a result of a pretrial agreement, the 19-year veteran, who was separated from her husband and two daughters, pleaded guilty to one count of fraternization at her March 11 court-martial. The Air Force booted her out of the service one year before she would have been eligible for a pension. After her lawyer expressed concern that she might be suicidal...
...Bacharach had written about him and provided this clarification: "You quote me as saying that the FBI are ?wizards at PR.? What I actually said is that they are wizards of propaganda . . . If you have trouble believing that the Justice Department are adept liars, come to one of my pretrial hearings, to the trial itself, or ask Richard Jewell." It ends on a note straight out of The X-Files: "People need to question and analyze what they hear, and ponder the motivations of those spreading the propaganda. The truth lies deeper...
...supportive, and some even volunteered to raise money. Finally the partners in the firm agreed." Petrocelli & Co. also tried to anticipate how much the case would cost in attorneys' fees. Says he: "We figured out how much time the case would require. We figured there wouldn't be much pretrial discovery, because there had already been a nine-month trial." As it turned out, they were quite wrong...
...home: a 6-ft. by 9-ft. cell in the county jail with a metal-frame bed and no television or reading material. This was where McDougal, a former partner with Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater Development Corp., spent the week before Christmas. She was awaiting a pretrial hearing related to charges that she embezzled money from the family of renowned conductor Zubin Mehta. But last Friday she was granted permission to return by year's end to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete tests for possible breast cancer. There she has been serving...
...prefer, principled). After an 81-day siege on the former Clark farm last spring and another six months in jail, most of the Freemen have remained faithful to their professed belief in the Federal Government's illegitimacy. They have largely refused counsel, objecting--and belching loudly--at pretrial hearings. Two weeks ago, a federal judge authorized "such reasonable force as necessary" to take their finger and palm prints. Trials are expected to begin no earlier than March...