Word: pretrial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original prosecution team talked to TIME about how envious he feels as he watches this case unfold. "The plaintiffs, like any good lawyers, have learned from our mistakes," the prosecutor says. "The plaintiffs have had a built-in advantage in that they could depose people. They could take pretrial statements under oath, months before the trial...
...just days before his trial was to begin, Alex's parents and Michael Sherman, his lawyer at the time, flew to Colorado to visit him. Last week Sherman testified he told Kelly he did not think he could get a "fair shake from the criminal justice system," blaming "horrendous pretrial publicity" and a ruling that allowed him to be tried for both rapes simultaneously (the charges have since been separated). "These were factors that led him and led me to feel that the decks were substantially being stacked against him," Sherman explained to TIME. Shortly thereafter, Alex disappeared...
...records the government gathered during the 18 years it spent hunting for the Unabomber. "This case is the largest, the biggest, the most complex case ever filed in this district," federal defender Quin Denvir told U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. at a pretrial hearing last Friday. But prosecutors made it clear they had found what they were looking for--proof that they had the man responsible for killing three people and injuring 23 others in 16 bombings around the country. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cleary said that in the journals they found in Kaczynski's Montana cabin...
...former football star has undergone a grueling nine days of depositions, enduring 248 questions in a row about how he cut his hand in his Chicago hotel room the night of the murders. Though Simpson made no obvious missteps, he was not a model witness. At one point during pretrial depositions, Simpson ignored several of Baker's admonishments to be quiet. Finally Baker, a veteran civil lawyer who specializes in medical-malpractice defense, shouted, "What am I, a potted plant...
...judge presiding at my pretrial stated that "after two investigations, there is no evidence connecting Afrasiabi to these charges...