Word: pretrial
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...SURE WHEN THE trial will begin. Maybe this fall, maybe early next year. First there are the months of pretrial motions. Depending on whether it's your side that makes them or theirs, the motions are either essential preliminaries or cynical delaying tactics. But as the nation marks the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the locus of that bitter and confounding episode is shifting to the eventual trial scene in Denver. Since federal courts don't ordinarily permit cameras, some families of the victims who won't be making the almost 600-mile trip from Oklahoma City...
...prosecutors' biggest challenges is to sit in silence while Jones sounds off--federal rules oblige them to avoid pretrial publicity--but this argument really brings out their exasperation. They want to know why, if McVeigh is the fall guy in a conspiracy, he hasn't told his own lawyer who the masterminds are. Why should Jones have to cast about for theories when McVeigh knows very well whom he talked to and when...
...JOHN E. DU PONT AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics...
...former chief of research at Brown & Williamson, the nation's third largest cigarette manufacturer, accused his company's former chairman of perjury. In a pretrial deposition obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Wigand charged that in 1994 chairman Thomas Sandefur told Congress he did not believe nicotine was addictive when in fact he was saying privately that his company was "in the nicotine-delivery business." Wigand also accused B&W lawyers of concealing potentially damaging research. The disclosure prompted cbs News to air on Friday part of a 60 Minutes interview with Wigand that it had declined to broadcast...
...state judge in the civil case against O.J. Simpson ruled that, contrary to his lawyers' wishes, Simpson's upcoming pretrial deposition will not be sealed. During the deposition, O.J. will be questioned under oath--for the first time--by lawyers for the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman...